Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: So fades the lovely blooming flower
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Steel
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1041
Page Number: 617, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSo fades the lovely, blooming flower,
Frail, smiling solace of an hour;
So soon our transient comforts fly,
And pleasure only blooms to die.
Is there no kind, no healing art,
To soothe the anguish of the heart?
Spirit of grace, be ever nigh;
Thy comforts are not made to die
Let gentle patience smile on pain,
Till dying hope revives again;
Hope wipes the tear from sorrow's eye,
And faith points upward to the sky.