Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: Time speeds away away away
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune: Lebanon
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 084, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTime speeds away, away, away!
Another hour, another day,
Another month, another year
Drop from us like the leaflets soar,
Drop like the life blood from our hearts'
The rose bloom from the cheek departs,
The tresses from the temples fall,
The eye grows dim and strange to all,
The eye grows dim and strange to all.
Time speeds away, away, away,
Like torrent in a stormy day;
He undermines the stately tower,
Uproots the tree and snaps the flower,
And sweeps from our distracted breast
The friends that loved, the friends that blessed,
And leaves us weeping on the shore
To which they can return no more.
Time speed away, away, away;
No eagle through the skies of day,
No wind along the hills can flee
So swiftly or so smooth as he.
Like fiery steed from stage to stage
He bears us on, from youth to age,
Then plunges in the fearful sea
Of fathomless eternity.