Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: See how the little toiling ant (FL)

Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns

Date: 1818

Compiler: Rice Haggard

Publisher/Printer: John Norvell

First Line: See how the little toiling ant

Topic: God Perfect

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 305

Page Number: 284, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

See how the little toiling ant

Improves the harvest hours:

While summer lasts thro' all her cells

The choicest store she pours.



While life remains, our harvest lasts;

But youth of life's the prime;

Best is this season for our work,

And this th' accepted time.



To day attend, is wisdom's voice,

To morrow, folly cries:

And still to morrow 'tis, when, Oh!

To day the sinner dies.



When conscience speaks, its voice regard,

And seize the tender hour;

Humbly implore the promis'd grace,

And God will give the power.