Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: How short and hasty is our life
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: Song 419
Page Number: 468, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHOW short and hasty is our life!
How vast our soul's affairs!
Yet foolish mortals vainly strive
To lavish out their years.
Our days run thoughtlessly along,
Without a moment's stay;
We, like a story, or a song,
Do pass our lives away.
God from on high invites us home;
But we march heedless on,
And, ever hast'ning to the tomb,
Stoop downward as we run.
Draw us, O God, with thy rich grace,
And lift our thoughts on high,
That we may end this mortal race,
And see salvation nigh.