Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: No bitter tears for thee be shed
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Hemans
Composer:
Meter: PM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1049
Page Number: 621, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNo bitter tears for thee be shed,
Blossom of being! seen and gone!
With flowers alone we strew thy bed,
O blest departed one!
Yes! thou are fled, ere guilt had power
To stain thy cherub-soul and form,
Closed in the soft ephemeral flower
That never felt a storm!
The sunbeam's smile, the zephyr's breath,
All that it knew from birth to death.
Oh! hadst thou still on earth remained,
Vision of beauty! fair as brief!
How soon thy brightness ahd been stained
With passion or with grief!
Now, not a sullying breath can rise.
To dim thy glory in the skies.