SWIFT as you swallows fly,
Airy and light,
Glance the brief moments by,
Out of thy sight.
Broad as you river flows,
Shining as fair,
All thy life-current flows,
Onward, but WHERE?
Think of ETERNITY,
Dear one, in time;
Birds have their voice for thee,
River and rhyme.
Waste not the sunny hours,
Golden and few;
Else when the tempest lowers,
What wilt thou do?
Art thou a child of day
Saved by the blood?
Hast thou the right to say,
“Father,” to God?
Are all thy crimson sins
On thee, or gone?
“Peace” upon earth begins, —
Is it thine own?
Oh, come to Jesus now!
Soon ‘tis too late!
Gladness shall crown thy brow,
Love banish hate.
All the old enmity
Sunk into shame,
Jesus thy joy shall be,
NONE OTHER NAME!