Text: | So fades the lovely, blooming flow'r |
Author: | Anna Steele |
Tune: | ZEPHYR |
Composer: | William Batchelder Bradbury |
1 So fades the lovely, blooming flow'r;
Frail, smiling solace of an hour;
So soon our transient comforts fly,
And pleasure only blooms to die.
2 Is there no kind, no healing art
To soothe the anguish of the heart?
Spirit of grace, be ever nigh;
Thy comforts are not made to die.
3 Let gentle patience smile on pain,
Till dying hope revives again;
Hope wipes the tear from sorrow's eye,
And faith points upward to the sky.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | So fades the lovely, blooming flow'r |
Author: | Anna Steele (1760) |
Meter: | L. M. No. 1 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1908 |
Topic: | Christian Life and Hope: The Consummation: Death and Burial |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. Alternate Tune: FEDERAL STREET, #449 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ZEPHYR |
Composer: | William Batchelder Bradbury (1844) |
Meter: | L. M. No. 1 |
Key: | C Major |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. |