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Hymn: The morning flow'rs display their sweets (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: The morning flow'rs display their sweets

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: S Wesley

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1035

Page Number: 614, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

The morning flow'rs display their sweets,

And gay their silen leaves unfold,

As careless of the noon-day heats

And fearless of the evening cold.



Nipt by the wind's untimely blast,

Parch'd by the sun's directer ray,

The momentary glories waste,

The short lived-beauties die away.



So blooms the human face divine,

When youth its pride and beauty shows;

Fairer than spring the colors shine,

And sweeter than the virgin rose.



Or worn by slowly rolling years,

Or broke by sickness in a day,

The fading glory disappears,

The short-lived beauties die away.



Yet these, new-rising from the tomb,

With luster brighter far shall shine;

Revive with ever-during bloom,

Safe from diseases and decline.



Let sickness blast, and death devour,

If heav'n must recompense our pains;

Perish the grass, and fade the flow'r,

If firm the word of God remains.