Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Our earth we now lament to see
Topic: Times and Seasons/Fasts
Writer: C Wesley
Composer:
Meter: LM six lines
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1260
Page Number: 754, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOur earth we now lament to see
With floods of wickedness o'erflowed,
With violence, wrong, and cruelty;
One wide-extended field of blood,
Where men like fiends each other tear
In all the hellish rage of war.
O might the universal Friend
This havoc of his creatures see;
Bid our unnatural discord end,
Declare us reconciled in thee;
Write kindness on our inward parts,
And chase the murderer from our hearts!