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Hymn: How short and hasty is our life (FL)

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

Lyics

How 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.