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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: She was the music of our home (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: She was the music of our home

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: <no first name given> Bonar

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1062

Page Number: 628, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

She was the music of our home,

A day that knew no night,

The fragrance of our garden bower,

A thing all smiles and light.



Above the couch we bent and prayed

In the half-lighted room,

As the bright hues of infant life

Sank slowly into gloom.



The form remained; but there was now

No soul our love to share;

Farwell, with weeping hearts we said,

Child of our love and care.



But years are moving quickly past,

And time will soon be o'er;

Death shall be swallowed up of life

On the immortal shore.