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Life Is A Span, A Fleeting Hour

Author: Anne Steele Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 165 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Life is a span, a fleeting hour, How soon the vapor flies! Man is a tender, transient flower, That e’en in blooming dies! 2 Death spreads like winter’s frozen arms, And beauty smiles no more; Ah! where are now those rising charms Which pleased our eyes before? 3 The once loved form, now cold and dead, Each mournful thought employs; And nature weeps, her comforts fled, And withered all her joys. 4 But wait the interposing gloom And lo, winter flies! And dressed in beauty’s fairest bloom The flowery tribes arise. 5 Hope looks beyond the bounds of time; When what we now deplore, Shall rise in full immortal prime, And bloom to fade no more. 6 Then cease, fond nature, cease thy tears, Religion points on high; There everlasting spring appears, And joys that cannot die. Used With Tune: BEATITUDO Text Sources: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760

Fill thou my life, O Lord my God

Author: Horatius N. Bonar, 1808-1889 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 95 hymnals Topics: Praise and Thanksgiving Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Used With Tune: BEATITUDO

The Well of Sychar

Author: Edward Denny Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Sweet was the hour, O Lord, to Thee Lyrics: 1 Sweet was the hour, O Lord, to Thee, At Sychar’s lonely well, When that poor outcast heard Thee there Thy great salvation tell. 2 Thither she came; but O, her heart All filled with earthly care, Dreamed not of Thee, nor thought to find The Hope of Israel there. 3 Lord! ’twas Thy power unseen that drew The stray one to that place, In solitude to learn from Thee The secrets of Thy grace. 4 There Jacob’s erring daughter found Those streams unknown before, The water brooks of life that make The weary thirst no more. 5 And Lord, to us, as vile as she, Thy gracious lips have told That mystery of love revealed At Jacob’s well of old. 6 In spirit, Lord, we’ve sat with Thee Beside the springing well Of life and peace—and heard Thee there Its healing virtues tell. 7 Dead to the world, we dream no more Of earthly pleasures now; Our deep, divine unfailing spring Of grace and glory Thou! 8 No hope of rest in aught beside, No beauty, Lord, we see; And, like Samaria’s daughter, seek, And find our all in Thee. Used With Tune: BEATITUDO Text Sources: Hymns and Poems (London: James Nisbet, 1849)

Speak to our hearts, O Father, say

Author: George MacDonald (1824-1965) Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: BEATITUDO

The Risen Christ

Author: John S. B. Monsell Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Where life is waking all around Used With Tune: BEATITUDO

Life springs on every field and hill

Author: Hellen M. Fletcher Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: BEATITUDO

O God, Our Help in Ages Past

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,248 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home! 2 Under the shadow of Thy throne Still may we dwell secure; Sufficient is Thine arm alone, And our defense is sure. 3 Before the hills in order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting Thou art God, To endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in Thy sight, Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all heir cares and fears, Are carried downward by the flood, And lost in following years. 6 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. 7 O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be Thou our guide while life shall last, And our eternal home! Amen. Topics: Church Year New Year; New Year's Day; Swiftness of Time Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: BEATITUDO