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Text:Like shadows gliding o'er the plain
Author:Jane Taylor
Tune:FEDERAL STREET
Composer:Henry Kemble Oliver

932. Like shadows gliding o'er the plain

1 Like shadows gliding o'er the plain,
Or clouds that roll successive on,
Man's busy generations pass,
And while we gaze, their forms are gone.

2 We live, we die: behold the sum
Of good or ill on life's fair page;
Alike in God's all-seeing eye,
The infant's day, the patriarch's age.

3 O Father, in whose mighty hand
The boundless years and ages lie,
Teach us thy boon of life to prize,
And use the moments as they fly.

Text Information
First Line: Like shadows gliding o'er the plain
Author: Jane Taylor
Publication Date: 1886
Topic: Death and Resurrection
Tune Information
Name: FEDERAL STREET
Composer: Henry Kemble Oliver
Meter: L. M.
Key: F Major or modal
Notes: Alternate tunes: #914 or 926.



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