Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: When blooming youth is snatch'd away
Topic: Mournful Scenes
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: Song 299
Page Number: 368, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHEN blooming youth is snatch'd away
By death's resistless hand,
Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,
Which pity must demand.
While pity prompts the rising sigh
O may this truth, impress'd
With awful pow'r, "I too must die,"
Sink deep in ev'ry breast.
Let this vain world engage no more:
Behold the op'ning tomb:
It bids us seize the present hour:
To-morrow death may come.
O let us fly-to Jesus fly,
Whose pow'rful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.
Great God, thy sov'reign grace impart,
With cleansing, healing pow'r;
This only can prepare the heart
For death's approaching hour.