Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: By cool Siloam's shady rill
Topic: Home/Youth and Age
Writer: <no first name given> Heber
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1211
Page Number: 725, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBy cool Siloam's shady rill
How fair the lily grows!
How sweet the breath, beneath the hill,
Of Sharon's dewy rose!
Lo! such the child, whose early feet
The paths of peace have trod,
Whose secret heart, with influence sweet
Is upward drawn to God.
By cool Siloam's shady rill
The lily must decay;
The rose that blooms beneath the hill,
Must shortly fade away.
And soon, too soon, the wintry hour
Of man's maturer age
Will shake the soul with sorrow's power
And stormy passions rage.
O, thou, who givest life and breath,
We seek thy grace alone.
In childhood, manhood, age and death,
To keep us still thine own.