Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: The glories of our birth and state
Topic: Death/Certain to All
Writer: <no first name given> Shirley
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: LM
Tune: Rockingham
Hymn Number: 191
Page Number: 076, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE glories of our birth and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings.
Princes and magistrates must fall,
And in the dust be equal made;
The high and mighty with the small,
Scepter and crown with scythe and spade.
The laurel withers on our brow;
Then boast no more your mighty deeds;
Upon death's purple altar now
See where the victor Victim bleeds!