Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: How long shall earth's alluring toys
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 314
Page Number: 292, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow long shall earth's alluring toys
Detain our hearts and eyes,
Regardless of immortal joys,
And strangers to the skies?
These transient scenes will soon decay,
They fade upon the sight;
And quickly will their brightest day
Be lost in endless night.
Their brightest day, alas, how vain!
With conscious sighs we own;
While clouds of sorrow, care and pain,
O'ershade the smiling noon
O could our thoughts and wishes fly
Above these gloomy shades'
To those bright worlds beyond the sky,
Which sorrow ne'er invades.
There joys unseen by mortal eyes,
Or reason's feeble ray,
In ever blooming prospects rise,
Unconscious of decay.
Lord, send a beam of light divine,
To guide our upward aim!
With one reviving touch of thine
Our languid hearts inflame.
Then shall, on faith's sublimest wing,
Our ardent wishes rise,
To those bright scenes where pleasures
Immortal in the skies. [spring