Dust to dust:
Fall and perish love and lust:
Life is one brief autumn day;
Sin and sorrow haunt the way
To the narrow house of clay,
Clutching at the good and just:
Dust to dust.
Dust to dust:
Still we strive and toil and trust,
From the cradle to the grave:
Vainly crying, “Jesus, save!”
Fall the coward and the brave,
Fall the felon and the just:
Dust to dust.
Dust to dust:
Hark, I hear the wintry gust;
Yet the roses bloom to-day,
Blushing to the kiss of May,
While the north winds sigh and say:
“Lo we bring the cruel frost–
Dust to dust.”
Dust to dust:
Yet we live and love and trust,
Lifting burning brow and eye
To the mountain peaks on high:
From the peaks the ages cry,
Strewing ashes, rime and rust:
“Dust to dust!”
Dust to dust:
What is gained when all is lost?
Gaily for a day we tread–
Proudly with averted head
O’er the ashes of the dead–
Blind with pride and mad with lust:
Dust to dust.
Hope and trust:
All life springs from out the dust:
Ah, we measure God by man,
Looking forward but a span
On His wondrous, boundless plan;
All His ways are wise and just;
Hope and trust.
Hope and trust:
Hope will blossom from the dust;
Love is queen: God’s throne is hers;
His great heart with loving force
Throbs throughout the universe;
We are His and He is just;
Hope and trust.
(Hanford Lennox Gordon)
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