Hymn

So Fades the Blooming Flower

Anne Steele

Metre L.M.

So fades the lovely, blooming flower;

Frail, smiling solace of an hour;

So soon our transient comforts fly,

And pleasure only blooms to die.

Is there no kind, no healing art

To soothe the anguish of the heart?

Spirit of grace, be ever nigh;

Thy comforts are not made to die.

Let gentle patience smile on pain,

Till dying hope revives again;

Hope wipes the tear from sorrow's eye,

And faith points upward to the sky.

So Fades the Blooming Flower — Text from Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal. 9th ed, 1895. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/so-fades-the-blooming-flower

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Who wrote So Fades the Blooming Flower?

The words of So Fades the Blooming Flower were written by Anne Steele; the version here was published in 1895. The library holds 47 more hymns by Anne Steele, including The Savior's Invitation and Dead in Trespasses and Sins.

Is So Fades the Blooming Flower public domain?

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What is the metre of So Fades the Blooming Flower?

So Fades the Blooming Flower is in Long Metre (8.8.8.8). Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, Praise for Protection, Grace and Truth, To the Holy Ghost and From All That Dwell Below the Skies.