Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: When around us life is shining
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 167
Page Number: 191, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen around us life is shining,
Touched by pleasure's flowing hand,
When its joys are softly twining
Round our hearts their silver band,
When some rich and valued blessing,
Comes upon each zephyr breath,
When each wished for good possessing,
Oh 'tis hard to think on death.
But there's something which can lighten
All the sorrows of the tomb,
All its dark recesses brighten,
Dissipate its saddest gloom.
Shed around its beams of glory,
Bid its every terror flee,
Fill the soul with rapture holy,
Jesus, 'tis one smile from thee.