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Text:Our Joy Is A Created Good
Author:Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Tune:AUBREY
Composer:Charles John Vincent, Jr., 1852-1934
Media:MIDI file

11014. Our Joy Is A Created Good

1 Our joy is a created good;
How soon it fades away!
Fades, at the morning hour bestowed,
Before the noon of day.

2 Joy, by its violent excess,
To certain ruin tends,
And all our rapturous happiness
In hasty sorrow ends.

3 In vain doth earthly bliss afford
A momentary shade;
It rises like the prophet’s gourd,
And withers o’er my head.

4 But of my Savior’s love possessed,
No more for earth I pine;
Secure of everlasting rest
Beneath the heavenly vine.

Text Information
First Line: Our joy is a created good
Title: Our Joy Is A Created Good
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Meter: CM
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: AUBREY
Composer: Charles John Vincent, Jr., 1852-1934
Meter: CM
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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