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
LyicsThe 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.