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Amidst the cheerful bloom of youth

Amidst the cheerful bloom of youth

Author: Benjamin Beddome
Tune: [Amidst the cheerful bloom of youth] (55132)
Published in 13 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Amidst the cheerful bloom of youth,
With ardent zeal pursue
The ways of piety and truth,
With death and Heaven in view.

2 Fair wisdom’s paths with sweets are strewed,
And pleasures all refined;
There joys divine are shed abroad,
That suit th’immortal mind.

3 Youth is the most accepted time,
To love and serve the Lord;
A flower presented in its prime,
Will much delight afford.

4 He’ll crown with peace your rising years,
And make your fruit increase;
Will guide you through this vale of tears,
And bid your sorrows cease.

5 Give Him the morning of your days,
And be for ever blessed;
’Tis none but those in wisdom’s ways
Enjoy substantial rest.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15783

Author: Benjamin Beddome

Benjamin Beddome was born at Henley-in Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, he received the degree of M.A. from the Baptist College in Providence, Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommendation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a "writer worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Amidst the cheerful bloom of youth
Author: Benjamin Beddome
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Amidst the cheerful bloom of youth. [Youth for God.] An anonymous hymn in the American Presbyterian Psalms & Hymns 1843, and the American Presbyterian Psalms & Hymns for the Worship of God, Richmond, 1867, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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The Cyber Hymnal #15783
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  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

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The Cyber Hymnal #15783

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