So Fades the Blooming Flower

So fades the lovely, blooming flower

Author: Anne Steele (1760)
Published in 136 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 So fades the lovely blooming flow’r,
Frail, smiling solace of an hour;
So soon our transient comforts fly,
And pleasure only blooms to die.

2 Is there no kind, no healing art,
To soothe the anguish of the heart?
Spirit of grace, be ever nigh;
Thy comforts are not made to die.

3 Let gentle patience smile on pain,
Till dying hope revives again,
Hope wipes the tear from sorrow’s eye,
And faith points upward to the sky.

Source: The Sacred Harp: the best collection of sacred songs, hymns, odes, and anthems ever offered the singing public for general use (1991 rev.) #32b

Author: Anne Steele

Anne Steele was the daughter of Particular Baptist preacher and timber merchant William Steele. She spent her entire life in Broughton, Hampshire, near the southern coast of England, and devoted much of her time to writing. Some accounts of her life portray her as a lonely, melancholy invalid, but a revival of research in the last decade indicates that she had been more active and social than what was previously thought. She was theologically conversant with Dissenting ministers and "found herself at the centre of a literary circle that included family members from various generations, as well as local literati." She chose a life of singleness to focus on her craft. Before Christmas in 1742, she declined a marriage proposal from contemporar… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: So fades the lovely, blooming flower
Title: So Fades the Blooming Flower
Author: Anne Steele (1760)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

DISTRESS


ZEPHYR (Bradbury)


FEDERAL STREET

Henry Kemble Oliver (b. Beverly, MA, 1800; d. Salem, MA, 1885) composed FEDERAL STREET in 1832, possibly as an imitation of earlier psalm tunes in long meter. He took it to a music class taught by Lowell Mason (who may have contributed to the harmony); Mason (PHH 96) published it in his Boston Acade…

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A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs #369

A Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion #d224

A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America #d459

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A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and Home #390

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the United Brethren in Christ #970

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A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America. #698

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A Collection of Hymns #440

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A Collection of Spiritual Hymns #413

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A Selection of Sacred Songs #52

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A Selection of Sacred Songs. 2nd ed. #52

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A Selection of Spiritual Songs #945

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American Lutheran Hymnal #297

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American Psalmody #124

Baptist Songs with Music #d168

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Book of Praise for the Sunday School #207b

Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs with Music for the Church and the Choir #d792

Chapel Hymns #d492

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Christian Hymns for Public and Private Worship #492

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Church Choral-Book #120

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Church Melodies #69

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Church Psalmist #628

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Church Psalmist #628

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Church Psalmist #628

Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Worship. 4th ed. #d249

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Deutsches Lieder- und Melodienbuch #a70

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Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal #444

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Evangelical Lutheran hymnal #444

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Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal. 9th ed. #a444

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Evangelical Musick #121b

Family Singing Book. Rev ed. with Supplement #d235

General Baptist Hymn Book #d416

Gospel Hymns #d482

Gospel Light, or Hymns and Tunes for all Occasions of Christian Work and Worship #d368

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Hymns and Tunes #70

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Hymns and Tunes #231

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Hymns for Christian Devotion #583

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Hymns for Christian Devotion #583

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Hymns for the Sanctuary #607

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Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship #1084

Hymns for Use in Divine Worship ... Seventh-Day Adventists #d953

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Hymns of Praise with Tunes #252

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Hymns #713

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Hymns #713

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Hymns #713

Mother's Hymn Book . New ed. #d114

Original Sacred Harp Denson Revision 1987 Standard Melodies #32b

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Plymouth Collection #a1090

Plymouth Collection #d73

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Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes; for the use of Christian Congregations #1090

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Precious Gems No. 1 #201

Psalmista #d210

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Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs #1176

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Psalms and Hymns, for Christian Use and Worship #H673

Sacred poetry #d419

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Sacred Poetry #aH.CCXXVIII

Sacred Poetry #d417

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Sacred Poetry #H.CCXXVIII

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Seamen's Hymns #628

Seamen's Hymns and Devotional Assistant #d536

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Selah #64c

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Selah #87a

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Selection of Hymns, for Public Worship designed to be used with Watts' #80

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Social Psalmist #628

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Songs for Social and Public Worship #160

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Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship #1190

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Songs for the Sanctuary; or Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Baptist Ed.) #1190

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Songs for the Sanctuary; or, Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (Words only) #1190

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Songs for the Sanctuary #1190

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Songs for the Sanctuary #1190

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Songs for the Sanctuary #1190

Songs for the School #d140

Songs for the School Room #d96

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Songs for the Service of Prayer #413

Songs of the Blessed Hope #d183

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Songs of the Church #764

Templi Carmina #d210

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book for Public Worship #949

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book, for Public Worship #323.949

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #[1374b]

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #1090

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The Baptist Hymn Book #949

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The Baptist Praise Book #1111

The Book of Praise #d683

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The Book of Worship #433

The Boston One-Line Psalmist #d141

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The Brethren Hymnal #502

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The Calvary Selection of Spiritual Songs #484

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The Canadian Baptist Hymn Book #689

The Canadian Baptist Hymnal for the use of Churches and Families #d554

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The Christian Church Hymnal #377

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The Christian Hymn Book #1041

The Christian Psalmist #d596

The Christian Psalter #d481

The Church Hymn Book #d483

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