Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Our fathers where are they
Topic: Present and Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune: Bankoke
Hymn Number: 710
Page Number: 258, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOur fathers! where are they,
With all they called their own?
Their joys and griefs, their hopes and cares,
Their wealth and honor, gone!
But joy or grief succeeds,
Beyond our mortal thought,
While still the remnant of their dust
Lies in the grave, forgot.
God of our fathers, hear,
Thou everlasting Friend,
While we, as on life's utmost verge,
Our souls to thee command.