Another day is past, The hours forever fled

Another day is past, The hours forever fled

Author: Anne Steele
Tune: [Another day is past]
Published in 82 hymnals

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I. Another day is past,
The hours for ever fled,
And time is bearing me in haste,
To mingle with the dead.

II. Perhaps my closing eyes
No more may hail the light,
Seal'd up, before the morning rise,
In everlasting night.

III. But I've a part to live,
A never dying ray,
The soul, immortal, will survive
The ruins of her clay.

IV. This mortal frame must lie
Unconscious in the tomb,
But oh! where will my spirit fly,
And what will be her doom?

V. On the tremendous brink
Of vast eternity,
Where souls with strange amazement shrink,
What will my prospect be?

VI. When the dark gulph below,
With death and horror fraught,
Reveals its scenes of endless woe—
Oh dreadful, dreadful thought!

VII. But lo! yon shining skies
Beam down a chearful ray,
And bid my drooping hopes arise
To glorious realms of day.

VIII. 'Tis there my Saviour lives,
My Lord, my life, my light;
His blissful name my soul revives—
Adieu to death and night.

IX. He conquer'd death and hell,
And victorious love
Shall bear his ransom'd friends, to dwell
In his bright courts above.

X. Jesus! and art thou mine?
O let thy heav'nly voice
Confirm my hope with pow'r divine,
And bid my soul rejoice.

XI. Then shall my closing eyes,
Contended, sink to rest;
For if to night this body lies,
My spirit shall be blest.

Source: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, Vol. 1 #56

Author: Anne Steele

Anne Steele was the daughter of Particular Baptist preacher and timber merchant William Steele. She spent her entire life in Broughton, Hampshire, near the southern coast of England, and devoted much of her time to writing. Some accounts of her life portray her as a lonely, melancholy invalid, but a revival of research in the last decade indicates that she had been more active and social than what was previously thought. She was theologically conversant with Dissenting ministers and "found herself at the centre of a literary circle that included family members from various generations, as well as local literati." She chose a life of singleness to focus on her craft. Before Christmas in 1742, she declined a marriage proposal from contemporar… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Another day is past, The hours forever fled
Author: Anne Steele
Source: Curtis's Coll.
Language: English
Refrain First Line: And that shall ever be for ever and ever
Copyright: Public Domain

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Baptist Chorals #289

Baptist Songs with Music #d9

Cantica Laudis #d12

Chapel Hymns #d29

Choral Harp for Sunday Schools #d8

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Christian Hymns for Public and Private Worship #855

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Church Psalmody #H708

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Church Psalmody #708

Family and Social Melodies #d24

Family Singing Book. Rev ed. with Supplement #d19

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Garlands of Praise #51

Gospel Praise Book, enlarged ed. #d7

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Gospel Praise Book. #199a

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Hallowed Songs #193

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Happy Greetings #71

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Hymns for Christian Devotion #950

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Hymns for Christian Devotion #950

Hymns for the Vestry and the Fireside #d15

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Hymns selected from various authors #408

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Hymns #946

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Hymns #946

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Hymns #909

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Hymns #946

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Manual of Christian Psalmody #708

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New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #400

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New Christian Hymn and Tune Book #400

New Standard Singer #d12

New Standard Singer, Pt. 1-7 #d12

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New Union Hymns #386

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Ocean Melodies, and Seamen's Companion #40b

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Plymouth Collection #a1333

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Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, Vol. 1 #56

Prayers for the Use of Families with a Selection of Hymns #d6

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Psalms and Hymns, for Christian Use and Worship #H699

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Psalms and Hymns #531

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (7th ed.) #S287

Sacred Melodies #d12

Sacred Songs for Church and Home #d23

Select Hymns #d24

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Select Hymns #361

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Social Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #530

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Songs for Social and Public Worship #557

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Songs of Devotion for Christian Assocations #402

The American Tune Book (Carmina Sacra, enlarged) #d15

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The Baptist Hymn and Tune Book #1333

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The Baptist Psalmody #1138

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The Christian Hymn Book #1196

The Christian Hymnal #d33

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The Christian Hymnal #830

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The Christian hymnal #430

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The Devotional Chimes #202a

The Golden Harp #d13

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The Hymn Book of the African Methodist Episcopal Church #823

The Hymnist #d11

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The Key-Stone Collection of Church Music #150a

The Modern Harp #d12

The National Psalmist #d5

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The New Baptist Psalmist and Tune Book #313

The Old Baptist Hymn Book #d21

The Pilgrim's Harp #d10

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The Psalmist #1028

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The Psalmist #1028

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The Psalmody #1012

The Psaltery #d10

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The Sabbath School Lute #150

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The Sacred Lyre #396

The Social Harp #d21

The Social Harp. Rev. #d24

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The Social Psalmist #284

The Southern Psalmist #d38

The Southern Psalmist. New ed. #d41

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The Standard Church Hymnal #68

Union Hymns #d24

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Waters' Choral Harp #125a

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