Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: How blest are they whose transient years
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Norton
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1042
Page Number: 618, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow blest are thy who transient years
Pass like an evening meteor's flight!
Not dark with guilt, nor dim with tears;
Whose course is short, unclouded, bright.
O, cheerless were our lengthened way;
But heaven's own light dispels the gloom,
Streams downward from eternal day,
And casts a glory round the tomb.
O, stay thy tears; the blest above
Have hailed a spirit's heavenly birth,
And sung a song of joy and love;
Then why should anguish reign on earth?