A Selection of Psalms and Hymns ‎#CCXX

CCXX. When blooming youth is snatch'd away

1 When blooming youth is snatch'd away,
By death's resistless hand
Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,
Which pity must demand.

2 While pity prompts the rising sigh,
O may this truth, impress,
With awful power, I too must die,
Sink deep in every breast.

3 Let this vain world engage no more;
Behold the gaping tomb!
It bids us seize the present hour,
To morrow death may come.

4 The voice of this alarming scene,
May every heart obey;
Nor be the heav'nly warning vain,
Which calls to watch and pray.

5 O let us fly, to Jesus fly,
Whose powerful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.

6 Great GOD thy sovereign grace impart,
With cleansing, healing power;
This only can prepare the heart,
For death's surprising hour.

Text Information

• First Line: When blooming youth is snatch'd away
• Author: Steel
• Meter: Common Metre
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1790
• Topic: Funeral Occasions
• Notes: Public Domain.

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