Hymns of the Christian Church.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| Modern Hymns |
| | | Early Piety |
| | | Reginald Heber (1783–1826) |
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| BY cool Siloam’s shady rill | |
| How sweet the lily grows! | |
| How sweet the breath beneath the hill | |
| Of Sharon’s dewy rose! | |
| Lo! such the child whose early feet | 5 |
| The paths of peace have trod, | |
| Whose secret heart with influence sweet, | |
| Is upward drawn to God. | |
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| By cool Siloam’s shady rill | |
| The lily must decay; | 10 |
| The rose that blooms beneath the hill | |
| Must shortly fade away; | |
| And soon, too soon, the wintry hour | |
| Of man’s maturer age | |
| Will shake the soul with sorrow’s power | 15 |
| And stormy passion’s rage. | |
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| O Thou, whose infant feet were found | |
| Within Thy Father’s shrine, | |
| Whose years with changeless virtue crowned | |
| Were all alike divine, | 20 |
| Dependent on Thy bounteous breath, | |
| We seek Thy grace alone, | |
| In childhood, manhood, age, and death | |
| To keep us still Thine own. | |
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