Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: How short and hasty is our life
Topic: Awakening
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 19
Page Number: 024, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow short and hasty is our life,
How vast our soul's affairs!
Yet senseless mortals vainly strive
To lavish out their years.
Our days run thoughtlessly along,
Without a moments stay:
Just like a story or a song,
We pass our lives away.
God from on high invites us home,
But we march heedless on,
And ever hastening to the tomb,
Stoop downward as we run.
How we deserve the deepest hell,
That slight the joys above!
What chains of vengeance should we feel,
That break such cords of love!
Draw us, O God, with sovereign grace,
And lift our thoughts on high,
That we may end this mortal race,
And see salvation nigh.