Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: As the sweet flower that scents the morn
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Cunningham
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1040
Page Number: 617, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAs the sweet flower that scents morn,
But withers in the rising day,-
Thus lovely seemed the infant's dawn;
Thus swiftly fled his life away!
Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,
Death timely came with friendly care;
The opening bud to heaven conveyed,
And bade it bloom for ever there.
He died to sin, and all its woes,
But for a moment felt the rod,-
On love's triumphant wing he rose,
To rest for ever with his God!