“BY COOL SILOAM'S SHADY RILL.”
This hymn of Bp. Heber inculcates the same lesson as that in the stanzas of Michael Bruce before noted, with added emphasis for the young on the briefness of time and opportunity even for them.
How fair the lily grows,
—is answered by—
The lily must decay,
—but, owing to the sweetness of the favorite melody, it was never a saddening hymn for children.