Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Life is a span a fleeting hour
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Steele
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1055
Page Number: 624, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLife is a span - a fleeting hour;
How soon the vapor flies!
Man is a tender, transient flower,
That ev'n in blooming - dies.
The once loved form, now cold and dead,
Each mournful thought employs;
And nature weeps her comforts fled,
And withered all her joys.
Hope looks beyond the bounds of time,
When what we now deplore
Shall rise in full, immortal prime,
And bloom to fade no more.
Cease then, fond nature, cease thy tears!
religion points on high;
There everlasting spring appears,
And joys that can not die.