Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: How short and hasty is our life
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1052
Page Number: 622, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow short and hasty is our life!
How vast our soul's affairs!
Yet foolish mortals vainly strive
To lavish out their years.
Our days run thoughtlessly along,
Without a moment's stay;
We, like a story, or a song,
Do pass our lives away.
God from on high invites us home;
But we march heedless on,
And, ever hast'ning to the tomb,
Stoop downward as we run.
Draw us, O God, with thy rich grace,
And lift our thoughts on high,
That we may end this mortal race,
And see salvation nigh.