Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Thee we adore Eternal name
Topic: Funeral Hymns
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 163
Page Number: 163, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThee we adore, Eternal name,
And humbly own to thee,
How feeble is our mortal frame,
What dying worms are we.
Our wasting lives grow shorter still,
As months and days increase;
And every beating pulse we tell,
Leaves but the number less.
Dangers stand thick thro all the ground,
To push us to the tomb;
And fierce diseases wait around,
To hurry mortals home.
The year rolls round, and steals away
The breath that first it gave;
What e'er we do, where e'er we be,
We're travelling to the grave.
Good God! On what a slender thread
Hang everlasting things!
Th' eternal states of all the dead,
Upon life's feeble strings.
Infinite joys, or endless wo,
Attends on every breath;
And yet how unconcerned we go,
Upon the brink of death!
Waken, O Lord, our drowsy sense,
To walk this dangerous road;
And if our souls be hurried hence,
May they be found with God.