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Hymn: Far far o'er hill and dale on the winds stealing (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Far far o'er hill and dale on the winds stealing

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

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

Composer:

Meter: 11s and 12s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1098

Page Number: 650, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Far, for o'er hill and dale, on the winds stealing,

List to the tolling bell, mournfully pealing,

Hark, hark, it seems to say, as melt those sounds away,

So earthly joys decay, while new their feeling!



Now through the charmed air, on the winds stealing,

List to the mourner's prayer, solemnly bending;

Hark, hark, it seems to say, turn from those joys away,

To those which ne'er decay, for life is ending.



So when our mortal ties death shall dissever,

Lord, may we reach the skies where are comes never,

And in eternal day, joining the angels' lay,

To our Creator pay homage for ever.