Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: No bitter tears for thee be shed
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 6s
Tune: Chant V
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 321, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNo bitter tears for thee be shed,
Blossom of being, seen and gone;
With flowers alone we strew thy bed,
O, blest departed one!
Whose all of life a rosy ray,
Blushed into life, and passed away.
Yes, thou art fled, ere guilt had power
To stain thy cherub soul and form;
Closed is the soft ephemeral flower
That never felt a storm.
The sunbeam's smile, the zephyr's breath,
All that it knew from birth to death.
O, had'st thou still on earth remained,
Vision of beauty! fair as brief!
How soon thy brightness had been stained
With passion or with grief!
Now, not a sullying breath can rise
To dim thy glory in the skies.