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Text:Consecrated Childhood
Author:R. Heber
Tune:SILOAM
Composer:I. B. Woodbury

405. Consecrated Childhood

1 By cool Siloam's shady rill
How fair the lily grows!
How sweet the breath, beneath the hill,
Of Sharon's dewy rose!

2 Lo, such the child whose early feet
The paths of peace have trod,
Whose secret heart, with influence sweet,
Is upward drawn to God.

3 Dependent on thy bounteous breath,
We seek thy grace alone
In childhood, manhood, age, and death,
To keep us still thine own.

Text Information
First Line: By cool Siloam's shady rill
Title: Consecrated Childhood
Author: R. Heber
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: SILOAM
Composer: I. B. Woodbury
Meter: C. M.
Key: D Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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