6755 | The Cyber Hymnal#6756 | 6757 |
Text: | Time, with an Unwearied Hand |
Author: | John Newton |
Tune: | HOLLINGSIDE |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Time, with an unwearied hand,
Pushes round the seasons past,
And in life’s frail glass, the sand
Sinks apace, not long to last:
Many, well as you or I,
Who last year assembled thus;
In their silent graves now lie,
Graves will open soon for us!
2. Daily sin, and care, and strife,
While the Lord prolongs our breath,
Make it but a dying life,
Or a kind of living death:
Wretched they, and most forlorn,
Who no better portion know;
Better ne’er to have been born,
Than to have our all below.
3. When constrained to go alone,
Leaving all you love behind;
Entering on a world unknown,
What will then support your mind?
When the Lord His summons sends,
Earthly comforts lose their power;
Honors, riches, kindred, friends,
Cannot cheer a dying hour.
4. Happy souls who fear the Lord
Time is not too swift for you;
When your Savior gives the word,
Glad you’ll bid the world adieu:
Then He’ll wipe away your tears,
Near Himself appoint your place;
Swifter fly, ye rolling years,
Lord, we long to see Thy face.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Time, with an unwearied hand |
Title: | Time, with an Unwearied Hand |
Author: | John Newton (1779) |
Meter: | 77.77 D |
Language: | English |
Source: | Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: MADRID (CARR), Benjamin Carr, 1824; MESSIAH, Louis J. Hérold, 1830 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HOLLINGSIDE |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes (1861) |
Meter: | 77.77 D |
Incipit: | 35655 73176 53123 |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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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 |