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Alas! how swift the moments fly!
How flash the years along!
Scarce here,
yet gone already by,
The burden of a song.
See childhood, youth,
and manhood pass,
And age, with furrowed brow;
Time was--Time shall
be--drain the glass--
But where in Time is now?
Time is the measure
but of change;
No present hour is found;
The past, the future,
fill the range
Of Time's unceasing round.
Where, then is now?
In realms above,
With God's atoning Lamb,
In regions of eternal love,
Where sits enthroned I AM.
Then pilgrim, let
thy joys and tears
On Time no longer lean;
But henceforth all
thy hopes and fears
From earth's affections wean:
To God let votive accents rise;
With truth, with virtue, live;
So all the bliss
that Time denies
Eternity shall give.
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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8 6 8 6 D (D.C.M.)
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Writer(s):
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Trans/Adapted:
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Dates:
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1839-09-29
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Bible Refs:
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Gen 6:3;
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MUSIC
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Name:
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GERALD (JERUSALEM)
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Meter:
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8 6 8 6 D (D.C.M.)
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1834
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 478 | D |
echo ' | ';
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Hymn Writer
