The faithless world promiscuous flows

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The faithless world promiscuous flow

Author: Charles Giles
Tune: PROSPECT OF HEAVEN
Published in 23 hymnals

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The faithless world promiscuous flows,
Enrapt in fancy's vision,
Allured by sounds, beguiled by show,
And empty dreams; they scarcely know
There is a brighter heaven.

Source: The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) #24

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Author: Charles Giles

Giles, Charles, an American Methodist minister, was born near Fort Griswold, Connecticut, Feb. 22, 1783, entered the ministry in 1805, and died at Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1867. His hymn, "The fading world promiscuous flows" (Heaven Anticipated), is found, in 6 stanzas of 5 lines, in James Gallagher's New Selection, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1835; and in 8 stanzas of 5 lines. From it the hymn, "This world is poor from shore to shore," in Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855; Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872, and others, is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

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First Line:	The faithless world promiscuous flow
Title:	The faithless world promiscuous flows
Author:	Charles Giles
Meter:	8.7.8.8.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain