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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Tell us you who have before us (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: Tell us you who have before us

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: Shields

Meter: 8s and 7s double

Tune: Shields

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 149, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Tell us, you who have before us

Gone the way to life's decline,

Does the lamp of peaceful promise

Brighter on your pathway shine?

Lead us, lead us by your counsel,

As the race of life we run,

Guide us to its blissful ending,

Teach us how its snares to shun.