Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: Oh no we cannot sing the songs
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: The Captive's Song
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 231, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOh no, we cannot sing the songs
Made for Jehovah's praise;
Our sorrowing harps refuse their strings
To Zion's gladsome lays.
They bid us be in mirthful mood,
And dry these tears so sad;
But Judah's hearths are desolate,
And why should we be glad?
Silent our harps o'er Babel's streams
And Zion we no more shall see,
Are hung on willows wet,
But we ne'er can forget.
Jerusalem! Thy banish'd ones
Prove anguish and regret;
But Heaven's own curse shall rest on them,
If thee they e'er forget.