The Cyber Hymnal ‎#11014

11014. Our Joy Is A Created Good

1 Our joy is a created good;
How soon it fades away!
Fades, at the morning hour bestowed,
Before the noon of day.

2 Joy, by its violent excess,
To certain ruin tends,
And all our rapturous happiness
In hasty sorrow ends.

3 In vain doth earthly bliss afford
A momentary shade;
It rises like the prophet’s gourd,
And withers o’er my head.

4 But of my Savior’s love possessed,
No more for earth I pine;
Secure of everlasting rest
Beneath the heavenly vine.

Text Information

• First Line: Our joy is a created good
• Title: Our Joy Is A Created Good
• Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: AUBREY
• Composer: Charles John Vincent, Jr., 1852-1934
• Meter: CM
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: Public Domain