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Brief life is here our portion
Author: John M. Neale; Bernard of Cluny Hymnal: Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes #607 (1899) Topics: Brevity of Life Lyrics: 1 Brief life is here our portion;
Brief sorrow, short-lived care;
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life, is there;
Oh, happy retribution!
Short toil, eternal rest;
For mortals, and for sinners,
A mansion with the blest!
2 There grief is turned to pleasure,--
Such pleasure as below
No human voice can utter,
No human heart can know;
And after fleshly weakness,
And after this world's night,
And after storm and whirlwind,
Are calm and joy and light.
3 For thee, O dear, dear country!
Mine eyes their vigils keep;
For very love, beholding
Thy happy name they weep:
The mention of thy glory
Is unction to the breast,
And medicine in sickness,
And love, and life, and rest.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. GEORGE'S, BOLTON
Brief life is here our portion
O where shall rest be found
Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: The Hymnal #638b (1921) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Brevity of Life Languages: English Tune Title: DENNIS
O where shall rest be found
How short and hasty is our life!
Author: Isaac Watts Hymnal: Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes #372 (1899) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Brevity of Life Lyrics: 1 How short and hasty is our life!
How vast our souls' affairs!
Yet senseless mortals vainly strive
To lavish out their years,
To lavish out their years.
2 Our days run thoughtlessly along,
Without a moment's stay;
Just like a story, or a song
We pass our lives away,
We pass our lives away.
3 God from on high invites us home,
But we march heedless on,
And ever hastening to the tomb,
Stoop downwards as we run,
Stoop downwards as we run.
4 How we deserve the deepest hell,
That slight the joys above!
What chains of vengeance should we feel,
That break such cords of love!
That break such cords of love!
5 Draw us, O Saviour, with Thy grace,
And lift our thoughts on high,
That we may end this mortal race,
And see salvation nigh,
And see salvation nigh.
Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: MORAVIAN
How short and hasty is our life!
Brief life is here our portion
Author: Rev. John Mason Nealse, 1818-1866; Bernard of Cluny Hymnal: Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #741 (1920) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Topics: Life Brevity of Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ALPHEGE
Brief life is here our portion
In the Bulb There Is a Flower
Author: Natalie Sleeth Hymnal: Voices United #703 (1996) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Brevity of Life Lyrics: 1 In the bulb there is a flower;
in the seed, an apple tree;
in cocoons, a hidden promise:
butterflies will soon be free!
In the cold and snow of winter
there's a spring that waits to be,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
2 There's a song in every silence,
seeking word and melody;
there's a dawn in every darkness,
bringing hope to you and me.
From the past will come the future;
what it holds, a mystery,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
3 In our end is our beginning;
in our time, infinity;
in our doubt there is believing;
in our life, eternity.
In our death, a resurrection;
at the last, a victory,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see. Languages: English Tune Title: PROMISE
In the Bulb There Is a Flower
Today I Live
Author: Fred Kaan Hymnal: Voices United #493 (1996) Meter: 10.11.10.11 Topics: Brevity of Life First Line: Today I live, but once shall come my death Lyrics: 1 Today I live, but once shall come my death;
one day shall still my laughter and my crying,
bring to a halt my heartbeat and my breath:
O, give me faith for living and for dying.
2 How I shall die, or when, I do not know,
nor where, for endless is the world's horizon:
but save me, God, from thoughts that lay me low,
from morbid fears that freeze my powers of reason.
3 When earthly life shall close, as close it must,
let Jesus be my brother and my merit.
Let me without regret recall the past
then, then, into your hands commit my spirit.
4 Meanwhile I live and move and I am glad,
enjoy this life and all its interweaving;
each given day, as I take up the thread,
let love suggest my mode, my mood of living.
Tune Title: BELLEGARDE
Today I Live
Then, O my Lord, prepare my soul
Author: Rev. Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 Hymnal: Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #739 (1920) Topics: Life Brevity of First Line: A few more years shall roll Languages: English Tune Title: CHALVEY
Then, O my Lord, prepare my soul
Days and moments quickly flying
Author: Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 Hymnal: Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #742 (1920) Topics: Life Brevity of Languages: English Tune Title: ST. SYLVESTER
Days and moments quickly flying
O God, our help in ages past
Author: Dr. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Hymnal: Methodist Hymn and Tune Book #47 (1917) Topics: Brevity of Life Lyrics: 1. O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home:
2. Under the shadow of Thy throne,
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient in Thine arm alone,
And our defence is sure.
3. Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
4. A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
5. The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their cares and fears,
Are carried downward by the flood,
And lost in following years.
6. Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
7. O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guide while life shall last,
And our eternal home. Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ANN
O God, our help in ages past
O God! our help in ages past
Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship (6th ed.) #278 (1827) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Vanity and brevity of life Scripture: Psalm 19:1-5 Languages: English
O God! our help in ages past
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