Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: When blooming youth is snatch'd away
Topic: Death/Of Youth
Writer: Anne Steele
Composer: I Woodbury
Meter: CM
Tune: Siloam
Hymn Number: 369
Page Number: 128, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHEN blooming youth is snatch'd away
By death's resistless hand,
Our hearts the mournful tribute pay
Which pity must demand.
While pity prompts the rising sigh,
O may this truth, impressed
With awful pow'r, "I, too, must die,"
Sink deep in every breast.
Let this vain world engage no more,
Behold the opening tomb;
It bids us seize the present hour;
To-morrow death may come.
O let us fly, to Jesus fly,
Whose pow'rful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.