Page 397
YOUTH
WILL
SOON
BE
GONE.
L.
M.
D.
Original.
"From
the
womb
of
the
morning:
thou
hast
the
dew
of
thy
youth."
Ps.
110:3.
Key
of
F
Major.
J.
P.
Rees,
1859.
Alto
by
S.
M.
Denson,
1911.
1. Youth
like
the
spring,
will
soon
be
gone,
By
fleet-ing
Time
or
conqu'ring
Death,
Your
morn-ing
sun
may
set
at
noon,
And
leave
you
ev'
-
er
in
the
dark.
Your
spark-ling
eyes
and
2 Ye
heedless
ones,
that
wild
-
ly
stroll,
The
grave
will
soon
be-come
your
bed,
Where
si-lence
reigns,
and
va
-
pors
roll,
In
sol- emn
dark-ness
round
your
head.
Your
friends
will
pass the
3. Ye
bloom-ing
youth,
this
is
the
state
Of
all
who
do
free
grace
re-fuse;
And
soon
with
you
'will
be
too
late
The
way
of
life
and
Christ
to
choose.
Come
lay
your
car
-
nal
glow-ing
cheeks,
Must
with
-
er
like
the
blast
-
ed
rose
The
cof-fin,
earth
and wind-ing
sheet,
Will
soon
your
ac-tive
limbs
en
-
close.
lonesome
place,
And
with
a
sigh
move
slow
-
ly
on
still
gaz-ing
on
the
spires
of
grass,
With
which
your
graves
are
o
-
ver
-
grown.
weap-ons
by,
No
long
er
fight
a
-
gainst
your
God:
But
with
the
gos
-
pel
now
com-ply,
And
heav'n
shall
be
your
great
re
-
ward.
Prof.
J.
P.
Rees
composed
the
above
tune
about
1859
for
the
Sacred
Harp.
It
is
unnecessary
to
give
further
data
about
Prof.
Rees,
other
than
to
refer
to
sketches
of
him
connected
with
his
various
tunes
in
this
volume.
The
three
verses
connected
with
this
hymn
is
the
3rd,
4th,
and
5th
verses
of
the
same
hymn
of
Young
people
all
attention
give.
See
tune
Mission,
204,
this
vol.
See
further
statement
about
the
hymn
under
tune
Liverpool,
page
37.