|
|
| |
|
Small the advantage to my soul,
Did I in gold and jewels shine,
Should endless pleasures round me roll,
Or I could call a sceptre mine.
Not all the mountains of Peru,
Supremely rich, immensely large,
Could pay the numerous suns I owe,
Or my enormous debts discharge.
Unnumbered worlds surpassing this,
Were all their stores of wealth my own,
Could not procure celestial bliss,
Or for the least offence atone.
Then will I envy those no more,
Who make these glittering toys their boast
Let them possess what they adore,
They gain the world, their souls are lost.
|
marker 99
|
LYRICS
|
Meter:
|
8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
|
|
Writer(s):
|
|
|
Trans/Adapted:
|
| |
Dates:
|
1818
|
|
Bible Refs:
|
Mt 16:26;
|
LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
|
Hymn/Song Book
|
Year
|
Song #
|
| 1818 | # 384 |
MUSIC
|
Name:
|
MELCOMBE
|
|
Meter:
|
8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
|
|
Writer(s):
|
|
|
Dates:
|
1782
|
LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
|
Hymn/Song Book
|
Song #
|
Key
|
| # 1 | No key | | # 520 | D | | # 520 | D | | # 4 | D | | # 75 | E | | # 927 | E | | # 155 | E | | # 273 | E | | # 347 | E | | # 356 | E | | # 161 | Eb | | # 268 | Eb | | # 678 | Eb | | # 40 | Eb | | # 219 | Eb | | # 253 | Eb | | # 303 | Eb | | # 363 | Eb | | # 394 | Eb | | # 597 | Eb | | # 80 | No key | | # 328 | No key | | # 17 | F |
echo ' | ';
|
Hymn Writer
