Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Hymn
Canonical path: /hymn/the-hour-glass
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Hour-glass
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The Hour-glass
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Alas! how swift the moments fly!
How flash the years along!
Scarce here, yet gone already by,
The burden of a song.
See childhood, youth, and manhood pass,
And age, with furrowed brow;
Time was-Time shall be-drain the glass-
But where in Time is now?
Time is the measure but of change;
No present hour is found;
The past, the future, fill the range
Of Time's unceasing round.
Where, then is now? In realms above,
With God's atoning Lamb,
In regions of eternal love,
Where sits enthroned I AM.
Then pilgrim, let thy joys and tears
On Time no longer lean;
But henceforth all thy hopes and fears
From earth's affections wean:
To God let votive accents rise;
With truth, with virtue, live;
So all the bliss that Time denies
Eternity shall give.
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Hymn performs "The Hour-glass", and this lyric page sits inside the Hymn catalog on LyroVerse.
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