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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Lowly and solemn be (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Lowly and solemn be

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: <no first name given> Hemans

Composer:

Meter: 6s and 4s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1087

Page Number: 643, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Lowly and solemn be

Thy children's cry to thee,

Father divine;

A hymn of suppliant breath,

Owning that life and death

Alike are thine.



O Father, in that hour

When earthly help and power

Are all in vain,

When spear, and shield, and crown

In faintness are cast down,

Do thou sustain.



By him who bowed to take

The death-cup for our sake,

The thorn, the rod-

From whom the last dismay

Was not to pass away-

Aid us, O God.



Trembling beside the grave,

We call on thee to save,

Father divine:

Hear, hear our supppliant breath;

Keep us, in life and death,

Thine, only thine.