Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Child amid the flowers at play
Topic: The Church/Prayer and Social Meetings
Writer: <no first name given> Hemans
Composer:
Meter: 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 574
Page Number: 347, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsChild, amid the flowers at play,
While the red light fades away;
Mother, with thine earnest eye
Ever following silently;
Father, by the breeze of eve,
Called thy daily toil to leave;
Pray! ere yet the dark hours be,
Life the heart, and bend the knee!
Traveler in the stranger's land,
Far from thine own household band;
Mourner, haunted by the tone
Of a voice from this world gone;
Captive, in whose narrow cell
Sunshine hath not leave to dwell;
Sailor, on the darkening sea,
Lift the heart, and bend the knee!
Ye that triumph, ye that sigh,
Kindred by one holy tie,
Heaven's first star alike ye see;
Lift the heart, and bend the knee!