Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: This book is all that's left me now
Topic: The Home/Family
Writer: <no first name given> Morris
Composer:
Meter: CMD
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1172
Page Number: 704, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThis book is all that's left me now,
Tears will unbidden start,
With faltring heart and throbbing brow,
I press it to my heart.
For many generations past,
Here is our family tree;
My mother's hand this Bible clasped;
She dying gave it me.
Ah! well do I remember those
Whose name these records bear;
Who round the hearth-stone used to close,
After the evening prayer,
And tell of what those pages said,
In terms my heart would thrill!
Though they are with the silent dead,
Here are thy living still.
My father read this holy book
To brothers, sisters dear;
How calm was my poor mother's look,
Who leaned God's word to hear.
Her angel face-I see it yet!
What thronging memories come!
Again that little group is met,
Within the walls of home.
Thou truest friend man ever knew,
Thy constancy I've tried;
Where all were false, I found thee true-
My counselor and guide.
The mines of earth no treasures give,
That could this volume buy;
In teaching me the way to live,
It taught me how to die.