Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: When blooming youth is snatch'd away
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Steele
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1058
Page Number: 626, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen blooming youth is snatch'd away
By death's resistless hand,
Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,
Which pity must demand.
While pity prompts the rising sigh,
O may this truth, impress'd
With awful pow'r, "I too must die,"
Sink deep in ev'ry breast.
Let this vain world engage no more:
Behold the op'ning tomb:
It bids us seize the present hour:
To-morrow death may come.
O let us fly - to Jesus fly,
Whose pow'rful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.
Great God, thy sov'reign grace impart,
With cleansing, healing pow'r;
This only can prepare the heart
For death's approaching hour.