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Hymn: The present moment flies (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: The present moment flies

Topic: <no topic given>

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

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Hymn Number: 324

Page Number: 158, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THE present moment flies,

And bears our life away;

Oh make thy servants truly wise,

That they may live to-day.



One thing demands our care;

Oh! be that still pursued!

Lest, slighted once, the season fair

Should never be renewed.



To Jesus may we fly,

Swift as the morning light,

Lest life's young, golden beams should die

In sudden, endless night.