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Hymn: Time passes with incessant speed (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: Time passes with incessant speed

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune: New Orleans

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 089, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Time passes with incessant speed,

And takes away our breath;

The coming day so quickly gone,

Is but approaching death!

The hurried moments from us fly,

Nor head our earnest pray'r,

As messengers to bear on high

What we are doing here.