Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Life is a span a fleeting hour (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Life is a span a fleeting hour

Topic: Death/Of Children

Writer: Anne Steele

Composer: Anonymous

Meter: CM

Tune: Edmeston (Stop)

Hymn Number: 342

Page Number: 121, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

LIFE is a span, a fleeting hour;

How soon the vapor flies!

Man is a tender, transient flow'r

That, e'en in blooming, dies.



The once-lov'd form, now cold and dead,

Each mournful thought employs;

And nature weeps her comforts fled,

And wither'd all her joys.



Hope looks beyond the bounds of time,

When what we now deplore

Shall rise in full, immortal prime,

And bloom to fade no more.



Cease then, fond nature, cease thy tears;

Religion points on high;

There everlasting Spring appears,

And joys that can not die.