The Cyber Hymnal ‎#9477

9477. When Blooming Youth Is Snatched Away

1 When blooming youth is snatched away,
By death’s resistless hand,
Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,
Which pity must demand.

2 While pity prompts the rising sigh,
O may this truth, impressed
With awful power—I too must die—
Sink deep in every breast.

3 Let this vain world engage no more;
Behold the gaping tomb!
It bids us seize the present hour,
Tomorrow, death may come.

4 The voice of this alarming scene,
May every heart obey,
Nor be the heavenly warning vain,
Which calls to watch and pray.

5 O let us fly, to Jesus fly,
Whose powerful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o’er the grave.

6 Great God, Thy sovereign grace impart,
With cleansing, healing power;
This only can prepare the heart,
For death’s surprising hour.

Text Information

• First Line: When blooming youth is snatched away
• Title: When Blooming Youth Is Snatched Away
• Author: Anne Steele
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Source: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: EVAN
• Composer: William Havergal (1847)
• Arranger: Lowell Mason (1850)
• Meter: CM
• Key: A♭ Major
• Copyright: Public Domain