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
LyicsLet 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.