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Hymn: Time is winging us away (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Time is winging us away

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: <no first name given> Burton

Composer:

Meter: 7s and 6s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1081

Page Number: 639, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Time is winging us away

To our eternal home;

Life is but a winter's day --

A journey to the tomb;

Youth and vigor soon will flee:

Blooming beauty lose its charms;

All that's mortal soon shall be

Inclosed in death's cold arms.



Time is winging us away

To our eternal home;

Life is but a winter's day --

A journey to the tomb!

But the Christian shall enjoy

Health and beauty soon above,

Far beyond the world's alloy,

Secure in Jesus' love.