Time and Eternity

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Time is so short and Eternity so long

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [Time is so short and Eternity so long]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Time is so short and Eternity so long
Title:	Time and Eternity
Author:	John R. Clements
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Eternity, Eternity
Publication Date:	1901
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.