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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Let the land mourn through all its coasts (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Let the land mourn through all its coasts

Topic: Times and Seasons/Fasts

Writer: <no first name given> Montgomery

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1261

Page Number: 755, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Let the land mourn through all its coasts,

And humble all its state;

Princes and rulers, at their posts,

Awhile sit desolate.



Let all the people, high and low,

Rich, poor, and great and small,

Invoke in fellowship of wo,

The Maker of them all.



For God hath summon'd from his place

Death in a direr form,

To waken, warn, and scourge our race,

Than earthquakes, fire, or storm.



Let churches weep within their pale,

And families apart;

Let each in secrecy bewail

The plague of his own heart.



So while the land bemoans its sin,

The pestilence may cease,

And mercy, tempering wrath, bring in

God's blessed health and peace.