[Music]
The time is swiftly rolling on
When I must faint and die;
My body to the dust return
And there forgotten lie.
William Walker claims the tune. See 'Farewell' in this collection for
different melodies associated with this text. Cecil Sharp recorded
five versions of the song as he heard them in the Appalachian
Mountains in 1916 and 1918. See Sharp, ii., 142-143. The text (given
more fully under 'Farewell') was written by the Reverend B. Hicks of
South Carolina. See _White Spirituals_, 202ff.
No. 5
FREE SALVATION, _Wesleyan Psalmist_