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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Child amid the flowers at play (FL)

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

Lyics

Child, 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!