Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Our fathers where are they
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: SM
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Hymn Number: Song 421
Page Number: 469, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOUR fathers! where are they,
With all they call'd 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 commend.
Of all the sainted dead,
May we the footsteps trace,
Till with them, in the land of light,
We dwell before thy face.