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What are possessions, fame and power

Author: R. Blackmore Appears in 12 hymnals

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What are possessions, fame, and power

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #97 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 What are possessions, fame, and power The boasted splendour of the great? What gold, which dazzled eyes adore, And seek with endless toils and sweat? 2 Express their charms, declare their use, That we their merits may descry, Tell us what good they can produce, Or what important wants supply. 3 If, wounded with the sense of sin, To them for pardon we should pray, Will they restore our peace within, And wash our guilty stains away? 4 Can they celestial life inspire, Nature with power divine renew, With pure and sacred transports fire Our bosom, and our lust subdue? 5 When with the pangs of death we strive, And yield all comforts here for lost, Will they support us, will they give Kind succour, when we need it most? 6 When at th' Almighty's awful bar To hear our final doom we stand, Can they incline the Judge to spare, Or wrest the vengeance from his hand? 7 Can they protect us from despair, From the dark reign of death and hell, Crown us with bliss, and throne us where The just, in joys immortal, dwell? 8 Sinners, your idols we despise, If these reliefs they cannot grant; Why should we such delusions prize, And pine in everlasting want? Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man; The Vanity of earthly Things

What are possessions, fame and power

Author: R. Blackmore Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, intended to be an Appendix to Dr. Watts' Psalms & Hymns. 2nd Baltimore ed. #aCCCXCVIII (1804)