Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Oh beauteous were the palaces (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: Oh beauteous were the palaces

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune: Mortals Awake

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 085, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Oh! Beauteous were the palaces

On Jordan wont to be,

And still they glimmer'd to the breeze,

Like stars beneath the sea.

But vultures held their jubilee,

Where harp and cymbal rung;

And there as if in mockery,

The baleful satyr sung.