Vanity is all I see,
Lord, I long to be with Thee.
The second and third stanzas have not escaped the touch of critical editors. The line,—
Whence the healing streams do flow
—becomes,—
Whence the healing waters flow,
—with which alteration there is no fault to find except that it is needless, and obliterates the ancient mark. But the third stanza, besides losing its second line for—
Bid the swelling stream divide,
—is weakened by a more needless substitution. Its original third line—
Death of death, and hell's destruction,