Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: When we our wearied limbs to rest
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune: Euphrates
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 071, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen we, our wearied limbs to rest,
Sat down by proud Euphrates' stream,
We wept, with doleful thoughts oppress'd,
And Zion was our mournful theme.
Our harps, that, when with joy we sung,
Were wont their tuneful parts to bear,
With silent strings neglected hung
On willow trees that wither'd there.
How shall we tune our voice to sing,
Or touch our harps with skillful hands?
Shall hymns of joy to God our King
Be sung by slaves in foreign lands?
O Salem, once our happy seat,
When I of thee forgetful prove;
Let then the trembling hand forget
the tuneful strings with art to move.