Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Thou God of love beneath thy sheltering wings
Topic: Present and Future/Second Advent
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 10s 6 and 4
Tune: The Burial
Hymn Number: 727
Page Number: 266, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThou God of love! be-neath thy sheltering wings
We leave our ho-ly dead,
To rest in hope!
From this world's suffer-ings
Their souls have fled!
Oh! when our souls are burdened with the weight
Of life, and all its woes,
Let us re-mem-ber them, and calmly wait
For our life's close.