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Woodbury, I. B. (Issac Baker), 1819-1858 (ed.) / The new lute of Zion: a collection of sacred music, designed for the use of congregations generally, but more especially the Methodist Episcopal Church
(c1856)
The music teacher, pp. [III]-XXXVIII
Page XXXVII
THE ABIDING AND THE 1LEETING. Quartet. or Fonr-rqrt
Song. ,Or11E ! I" L
,w false and fleeting! Vanish-ing with-in the hour; Envious, murky west
winds, beating,Come and wither every flower,
rt cv - er changing! Forms that now before thee rise, Pal- a - ces and walls
high ranging, Thou behold'st with othbr
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ig let com-ple-tion Fol-low in har-no-nious rhyme ; Let thy spi-rit's swift
fru - i - tion Yet out-strip the flight of tine.
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ver-dure gladden, Casting now its gradual shade,Which the autumn storms must
sadden, And whose fairest forms must fade?
lips that glad-ly Once bestowed love's fond embrace, And the foot that bold-ly,
mad-ly Trod the hunter's mountain chase.
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nav'st in-her - it, Mor-tal of the mu - ses blest! The i - deal be fore
thy spi - rit, The reward with-in thy breat.
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