Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: The glories of our birth and state
Topic: Present and Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: W Bradbury
Meter: LM
Tune: Rest
Hymn Number: 706
Page Number: 257, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe glories of our birth and state
Are shadows; not substantial things;
There is no armor against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings.
Princes and magistrates must fall,
And in the dust be equal made;
The high and mighty with the small,
Scepter and crown with scythe and spade.
The laurel withers on our brow;
Then boast no more your mighty deeds;
Upon death's purple altar now
See where the victor victim bleeds!