Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: As the sweet flow'r that scents the morn (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: As the sweet flow'r that scents the morn

Topic: Death/Of Children

Writer: J Cunningham

Composer: William Bradbury

Meter: LM

Tune: Zephyr (Stop)

Hymn Number: 238

Page Number: 089, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

AS the sweet flow'r that scents the morn,

But withers in the rising day,

Thus lovely seem'd the infant's dawn;

Thus swiftly fled its life away!



Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,

Death timely came with friendly care;

The opening bud to heav'n convey'd,

And bade it bloom forever there.



It died to sin and all its woes,

But for a moment felt the rod--

On love's triumphant wing it rose,

To rest forever with its God!