Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Few are thy days and full of woe
Topic: Mournful Scenes
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: Song 303
Page Number: 371, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFEW are thy days and full of woe
O man of woman born!
Thy doom is written, "Dust thou art,
And shalt to dust return."
Behold the emblem of thy state
In flow'rs that bloom and die,
Or in the shadow's fleeting form,
That mocks the gazer's eye.
The mighty flood, that rolls along
Its torrents to the main,
Can ne'er recall its waters lost
From that abyss again.
So days, and years, and ages past,
Descending down to night,
Can henceforth never more return
Back to the gates of light.
O may the grave become to me
The bed of peaceful rest,
Whence I shall gladly rise at length
And mingle with the blest!
Cheer'd by this hope, with patient mind
I'll wait Heav'ns high decree,
Till the appointed period come,
When death shall set me free.