2558 | The Cyber Hymnal#2559 | 2560 |
Text: | The Hour-Glass |
Author: | John Quincy Adams |
Tune: | GERALD |
Composer: | Ludwig Spohr |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. 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?
2. 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.
3. 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.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Alas! how swift the moments fly |
Title: | The Hour-Glass |
Author: | John Quincy Adams (1839) |
Meter: | CMD |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | He wrote this hymn for the 200th anniversary of the First Congregational Church in Quincy, Massachusetts, September 29, 1839. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GERALD |
Composer: | Ludwig Spohr (1834) |
Meter: | CMD |
Incipit: | 55431 76665 35435 |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Das Heiland's letzte Stunde, 1834 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |