Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Gently fall the dews of eye
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: W Perkins
Meter: 7s or 8s and 7s
Tune: Grannis
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 189, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGently fall the dews of eve,
Raising still the languid flowers;
Sweetly flow the tears that grieve
O'er a mourner's stricken hours.
Blessed tears and dews, that yet
Lift us nearer unto heaven!
Let us still His praise repeat
Who in mercy all hath given.
Hark! what mean those lamentations,
Rolling sadly through the sky?
Tis the cry of heathen nations,
"Come and help us, ere we die."
Hear the heathens' and complaining;
Christians, hear their dying cry,
And, the love of Christ constraining,
Join to help them, ere they die.