By Cool Siloam

Choir - The Goonvrea Singers from Perranarworthal, Cornwall, UK.
Musical Director Joyce Robson.
Composition is Public Domain.
By cool Siloam's shady rill
Author: Reginald Heber (1812)
Tune: SILOAM (Woodbury). I. B. Woodbury (1842). Public Domain.

1 By cool Siloam's shady rill
how sweet the lily grows!
How sweet the breath beneath the hill
of Sharon's dewy rose!

3 By cool Siloam's shady rill
the lily must decay,
the rose that blooms beneath the hill
must shortly fade away;

4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour
of life's maturer age
will shake the soul with sorrow's power
and stormy passion's rage.

6 Dependent on thy bounteous breath
we seek thy grace alone,
through every stage of life, and death,
to keep us still thine own.