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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Not for the summer hour alone (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Not for the summer hour alone

Topic: Times and Seasons/Marriage Hymns

Writer: <no first name given> Sigourney

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1298

Page Number: 776, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

NOT for the summer hour alone,

When skies resplendent shine.

And youth and pleasure fill the throne,

Our hearts and hands we join,--



But for those stern and wintry days

Of sorrow, pain, and fear.

When heaven's wise discipline doth make

Our earthly journey drear.



Not for this span of life alone,

Which like a blast doth fly,

And, as the transient flowers of grass,

Just blossom, droop, and die-



But for a begin without end

This vow of love we take:

Grant us, O Lord, one home at last,

For thy great mercy's sake.