How Vain Is All Beneath the Skies! NUNDA—Lowell Mason MERIBAH—Lowell Mason How Vain Is All Beneath the Skies! 1 How vain is all beneath the skies! How transient every earthly bliss! How slender all the fondest ties, That bind us to a world like this! 2 The evening cloud, the morning dew, The withering grass, the fading flower, Of earthly hopes are emblems true The glory of a passing hour! 3 But though earth’s fairest blossoms die, And all beneath the skies is vain, There is a land, whose