Death and Resurrection

So fades the lovely, blooming flower

No. 922
Metre L. M.
Words Anne Steele.
Singing key D major
3 stanzas

Sung to MALVERN (hymn 927)

Words

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

Is there no kind, no healing art,To soothe the anguish of the heart?Divine Redeemer, be thou nigh;Thy comforts were not made to die.

Let gentle Patience smile on pain,Till dying Hope revives again;She wipes the tear from Sorrow's eye,And Faith points upward to the sky.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «922» (large) at the head of the right column of p. 310, beside stanzas 2–4 of hymn 921, with the reference line «927, 926.» in italic figures beside it (sing to the tunes of hymns 927 MALVERN or 926 PROTECTION, both L. M.; no meter is printed — the four lines 8.8.8.8 are L. M., like the referenced tunes). Stanzas numbered «1»–«3» without periods (written «1.»–«3.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); the lines of each stanza are set flush. The first word «So» is set in ordinary type (no small capitals). «Anne Steele.» in italics, right-aligned, at the foot of the column. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «?» («hour ;», «nigh ;», «again ;», «heart ?»); it is closed up here. The apostrophe of «Sorrow's» is written straight. Spelling, punctuation (the full stop after «flower.» at the end of line 1) and capitals («Patience», «Hope», «Sorrow's», «Faith») are the print's.