By cool Siloam's shady rill
- Authors
- Reginald Heber
- Year
- 1812
- Example Text
- By cool Siloam's shady rill...
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- Scripture References
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- Job 32:8; 33:4
- Psalm 103:15-16; 144:12
- Proverbs 8:17
- Ecclesiastes 12:1
- Song of Solomon 2:1
- Isaiah 40:6-8; 46:3-4
- Joel 2:17
- Matthew 5:8
- Luke 2:39-52
- 2 Timothy 3:15
- 1 Peter 1:24
- Lyrics
1 By cool Siloam's shady rill
how sweet 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 By cool Siloam's shady rill
the lily must decay,
the rose that blooms beneath the hill
must shortly fade away;
4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour
of life's maturer age
will shake the soul with sorrow's power
and stormy passion's rage.
5 O thou, whose infant feet were found
within thy Father's shrine,
whose years, with changeless virtue crowned,
were all alike divine,
6 Dependent on thy bounteous breath
we seek thy grace alone,
through every stage of life, and death,
to keep us still thine own.
Source:Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #688
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