Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: This earth hath many a pleasant sweet
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: DCM
Tune: Flowers of Earth and Heaven
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 296, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThis earth hath many a plea-sant sweet,
Hath many beauteous flowers
Which spread their tribute at our feet,
And scent the gladsome hours.
The an-gry this-tle threatens wrath
To man from E-den driven;
But these bright flowers about our path
Whisper of grace and heaven,
Whisper of grace and heaven,
Whisper of grace and heaven,
But these bright flowers a-bout our path
Whisper of grace and heaven.
They tell us of our Father's love,
Our Father's bounteous care;
And point us to that land above-
Unfading flowers are there.
The flowers of earth but bloom to die,
And lose their rich perfume;
But those sweet flowers beyond the sky
For evermore shall bloom.
O give us, Lord, a cheerful mind
To joy in all thy ways;
That we in every flower may find
Some grateful song of praise:
That as to heaven the moments flee,
Their record there to trace,
Thine own pure eyes well pleased may see
In us the flowers of grace.