Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Time speeds away away away
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Tune:
Hymn Number: 638
Page Number: 337, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTIME speeds away, away, away,
Another hour, another day,
Another month, another year,
Drop from our life like leaflets sear;
Drop like they life-blood from our hearts;
The rose bloom from our cheek departs;
The tresses from our temples fall-
The eye grows dim and strange to all.
Time speeds away, away, away,
Like torrent in a stormy day,
He undermines the stately tower-
Uproots the tree and snaps the flower;
He sweeps from our distracted breast,
The friends that loved, the friends that blest;
And leaves us weeping on the shore,
To which they can return no more.
Time speeds away, away, away,
No eagle through the sky of day,
No wind along the hills can flee
So swiftly, or so smoothe as he,
Like fiery steed from stage to stage,
He bears us on from youth to age,
Then plunges in the fearful sea
Of fathomless eternity:
Of fathomless eternity.