Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_flee-as-a-bird_frederick-wheeler-mrs.-m.-s.-b.-dana-victor-orchestra_gbia0013547b
https://archive.org/details/78_flee-as-a-bird_louise-homer-mrs-m-s-b-dana_gbia0014688a
https://archive.org/details/78_flee-as-a-bird_thomas-chalmers-mrs-s-m-b-dana_gbia0023252bPublication Date
1857
Lyrics
Flee as a bird to your mountain,
Thou who art weary of sin;
Go to the clear flowing fountain,
Where you may wash and be clean;
Fly, for th’avenger is near thee;
Call and the Saviour will hear thee,
He on his bosom will bear thee,
Thou who art weary of sin,
O thou, who art weary of sin.
He will protect thee for ever,
Wipe ev’ry falling tear;
He will forsake thee, O never,
Sheltered so tenderly there;
Haste, then, the hours are flying,
Spend not the moments in sighing,
Cease from your sorrow and crying,
The Saviour will wipe ev’ry tear,
The savior will wipe ev’ry tear.
Recommended Citation
Shindler, Mary Dana, "Flee As A Bird" (1857). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 384.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/384
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Flee as a bird. Song.
Words written and adapted to a Spanish melody,
By Mrs. Mary S.B. Dana,
Boston: Published by O. Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St.
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