Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: All around us fair with flowers (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: All around us fair with flowers

Topic: The New Life/Sympathies and Activities

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

Composer:

Meter: 8s and 7s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 970

Page Number: 576, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

All around us, fair with flowers,

Fields of beauty sleeping lie;

All around us clarion voices

Call to duty stern and high.



Following every voice of mercy

With a trusting, loving heart;

Let us in life's earnest labor

Still be sure to do our part.



Now, to-day, and not to-morrow,

Let us work with all our might,

Lest the wretched faint and perish

In the coming stormy night.



Now, to-day, and not to-morrow,

Lest, before to-morrow's sun,

We too, mournfully departing,

Shall have left our work undone.