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| Text: | So fades the lovely blooming flow'r |
| Author: | Anne Steele |
| Tune: | DISTRESS |
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.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | So fades the lovely blooming flow'r |
| Author: | Anne Steele (1760) |
| Meter: | L.M. |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1991 |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | DISTRESS |
| Meter: | L.M. |
| Key: | e minor |
| Source: | Southern Harmony, 1835 |
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