Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Almighty Maker of my frame
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Steele
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1045
Page Number: 619, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAlmighty Maker of my frame,
Teach me the measure of my days;
Teach me to know how frail I am,
And spend the remnant to thy praise.
My days are shorter than a span;
A little point my life appears;
How frail at best is dying man!
How vain are all his hopes and fears!
Vain his ambition, noise, and show;
Vain are teh cares which rack his mind
He heaps up treasures mixed with wo,
And dies, and leaves them all behind.
O, be a nobler portion mine;
My God, I bow before thy throne;
Earth's fleeting treasures I resign,
And fix my hope on thee alone.