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145. It Is Not Time That Flies

1 It is not time that flies;
'Tis we, 'tis we are flying.
It is not life that dies;
'Tis we, 'tis we are dying.
Time and eternity are one,
Time is eternity begun.
Time changes but without decay;
'Tis we alone who pass away.

2 It is not truth that flies;
'Tis we, 'tis we are flying.
It is not faith that dies;
'Tis we, 'tis we are dying.
O, ever during faith and truth,
Whose youth is age, whose age is youth,
Twin stars of immortality;
Ye cannot perish from our sky.

3 It is not hope that flies;
'Tis we, 'tis we are flying,
It is not love that dies;
'Tis we, 'tis we are dying.
Twin streams that have in heav'n your birth.
Ye glide in gentle joy thro' earth,
We fade like flow'rs beside you sown,
Years still ever flowing on.

4 Yet we but die to live.
It is from death we're flying.
Forever lives our life;
For us there is no dying.
We die but as the spring bud dies,
In summer's golden joy to rise,
Those be our days of April bloom,
Our July is beyond the tomb.

Text Information
First Line: It is not time that flies
Title: It Is Not Time That Flies
Language: English
Publication Date: 1875
Tune Information
Name: [It is not time that flies]
Key: F Major or modal



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