The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#919

919. The morning flowers display their sweets

1 The morning flowers display their sweets,
And gay their silken leaves unfold,
As careless of the noontide heats,
As fearless of the evening cold.

2 Nipped by the wind's unkindly blast,
Parched by the sun's directer ray.
The momentary glories waste,
The short-lived beauties die away.

3 So blooms the human face divine
When youth its pride of beauty shows;
Fairer than spring the colors shine,
And sweeter than the virgin rose.

4 Or worn by slowly rolling years,
Or broke by sickness in a day,
The fading glory disappears,
The short-lived beauties die away.

5 Yet these, new rising from the tomb,
With luster brighter far shall shine,
Revive with ever-during bloom,
Safe from diseases and decline.

6 Let sickness blast, let death devour,
If heaven but recompense our pains;
Perish the grass, and fade the flower,
If firm the word of God remains.

Text Information

• First Line: The morning flowers display their sweets
• Author: Samuel Wesley, Jr.
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: Death and Resurrection

Tune Information

• Name: RUSSELL
• Composer: Edwin Barnes
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: D Major
• Notes: Alternate tunes: #914 or 923.