See the leaves around us falling

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1 See the leaves around us falling,
Dry and withered to the ground;
Thus to thoughtless mortals calling,
In a sad and solemn sound;

2 "Youth on length of days presuming,
Who the paths of pleasure tread,
View us, late in beauty blooming,
Numbered now among the dead.

3 "Yearly in our course appearing,
Messengers of shortest stay,
Thus we preach in mortal hearing,
Ye, like us, shall pass away."

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #962

Author: George Horne

Home, George, D.D., born at Otham, near Maidstone, Kent, Nov. 1, 1730, and educated at Maidstone, and University College, Oxford (B.A. 1749). He subsequently became a Fellow, and in 1768 Master of Magdalen College. He was also Vice-Chancellor of his University, 1776; Dean of Canterbury, 1781, and Bishop of Norwich, 1791. He died Jan. 17, 1792. Bp. Home is widely known through his Commentary on the Book of Psalms. His hymns were included in his Memoirs by the Rev. W. Jones, 1795: again, in his Essays and Thoughts on Various Subjects with Hymns and Poems, 1808: and again, in his Works, 1809. Of his Hymns the best known is:— See the leaves around us falling [Autumn], which appeared in his Memoirs, 1795, pp. 223-4, in 10 stanzas of 4 lin… Go to person page >

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First Line: See the leaves around us falling
Author: George Horne
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

See the leaves around us falling, p. 535, i. This hymn appeared in The Christian's Magazine, 1760, p. 86, as "The Fall of the Leaf; a Sacred Ode," and again in the Gospel Magazine, Sept. 1769, p. 447.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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