ALL THINGS ON EARTH ARE VANITY

Don Fortner

A11 things on earth are vanity,

The things of time decay:

The dearest and most pleasant things

Will soon dissolve away.

Even the blessings here enjoyed

Of friend and family,

In time they too will be destroyed:

All things are vanity.

Let me regard not things below

Nor give them greater care

Than when I to my grave shall go,

Or Jesus shall appear.

MY soul as a weaned child must be,

My heart's affection set

On heaven and eternity,

On Christ, my living Head.

(Tune: Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?)

Common Meter 86.86.