Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: God of my childhood and my youth
Topic: Home/Youth and Age
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 1223
Page Number: 732, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGod of my childhood and my youth,
The Guide of all my days,
I have declared thy heavenly truth,
And told thy wondrous ways.
Wilt thou forsake my hoary hairs,
And leave my fainting heart?
Who shall sustain my sinking years,
If God, my strength, depart?
Let me thy power and truth proclaim
To the surviving age,
And leave a savor of thy name
When I shall quit the stage.
The land of silence and of death
Attends my next remove;
O, may these poor remains of breath
Teach the wide world thy love.