Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Lowly and solemn be
Topic: Present and Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 6s and 4s
Tune: Enpar
Hymn Number: 723
Page Number: 264, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLowly and solemn be
Thy children's cry to thee,
Fa-ther di-vine;
A hymn of suppliant breath,
Owning that life and death
A-like are thine.
O Father, in that hour,
When earthly help and power
Are all in vain,
When spear, and shield, and crown,
In faintness are cast down,
Do thou sus-tain.
By him who bowed to take
The death cup for our sake,
The thorn, the rod-
From whom the last dismay
Was not to pass away-
Aid us, O God!
Trembling beside the grave,
We call on thee to save,
Father divine;
Hear, hear our suppliant breath;
Keep us, in life and death,
Thine, only thine.