Relly’s Farewell C.M.
By Aldo Thomas Ceresa
- Key
- A minor
- Type
- Plain tune
- Time signature
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4
4 - Composed
- 2015
- Text
- James Relly, 1758
Text
Farewell, vain world, from thee I cease,
Having survey'd thee round;
Thy honour, wealth, thy joy and peace,
I've now a bubble found.
Thro' disappointments all my days,
I've been by thee oppress'd:
Yea, curs'd and cross'd in all the ways,
Where other men were blest.
No more deluded by thy smiles,
Nor crush'd beneath thy frown;
My Jesus blasts thy cobweb wiles,
And gives the glorious crown.