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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Our earth we now lament to see (FL)

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

Lyics

Our 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!