The time is short the season nears That I must leave this vale of tears

Author: Anna Ziegler Hess

Anna Ziegler Hess was born in Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was a housewife with seven children and she also wrote many poems. Two of her poems, "O Lord, help me to live," "The time is short, the season nears," appeared in the 1874 Brethren of Christ hymnal Collection of Spiritual Hymns. Dianne Shapiro from PhD dissertation "A Historical Study of The Function of Music Among The Brethren In Christ" by Herbert Royce Saltzman, University of Southern California, 1964 Go to person page >