Christ My Song - 2115
It is not time that flies - Time and Eternity
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Time and Eternity.
1. It is not time that flies;
'tis we, 'tis we are flying:
it is not life that dies;
'tis we, 'tis we are dying.
Time and eternity are one;
time is eternity begun:
life changes, yet without decay;
'tis we alone who pass away. PDF - Midi
2. It is not truth that flies;
'tis we, 'tis we are flying:
it is not faith that dies;
'tis we, 'tis we are dying.
O ever-during faith and truth,
whose youth is age, whose age is youth,
twin stars of immortality,
ye cannot perish from our sky!
3. It is not hope that flies;
'tis we, 'tis we are flying:
it is not love life that dies;
'tis we, 'tis we are dying.
twin streams, that have in heaven your birth,
ye glide in gentle joy to earth:
we fade like flowers beside you sown;
ye are still flowing, flowing on.
4. Yet we but die to live;
it is from death we're flying:
for ever lives our life;
for us there is no dying.
We die but as the spring-bud dies,
in summer's golden glow to rise:
these be our days of April bloom;
our July is beyond the tomb.
Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope II, 1878, 51-52.