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Text:My life's a shade, my days
Author:Samuel Crossman
Tune:CROSSMAN

562. My life's a shade, my days

1 My life's a shade, my days
Apace to death decline:
My Lord is Life; He'll raise
My dust again, even mine.
Sweet truth to me!
I shall arise
And with these eyes
My Saviour see.

2 My peaceful grave shall keep
My form till that sweet day;
I shall awake from sleep
And leave my bed of clay.
Sweet truth to me!
I shall arise,
And with these eyes
My Saviour see.

3 Then welcome, harmless grave!
By thee to heaven I'll go:
My Saviour's Death shall save
Me from the flames below.
Sweet truth to me!
I shall arise,
And with these eyes
My Saviour see.

Text Information
First Line: My life's a shade, my days
Author: Samuel Crossman (1664, a.)
Meter: H. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: Death and Eternity: Resurrection; Easter Sunday
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: CROSSMAN
Meter: H. M.
Key: e minor
Notes: Now Public Domain. Composer from index: Dr. E. G. Monk, 1867



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