Text: | O Lord of Life, Where'er They Be |
Author: | Frederick Lucian Hosmer |
Tune: | GELOBT SEI GOTT |
Composer (attributed to): | Melchoir Vulpius |
1 O Lord of life, where’er they be,
Safe in your own eternity,
Now live your children gloriously:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
2 All souls you call, both here and there
Do rest within your sheltering care;
One providence alike they share:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
3 Your word is true, your ways are just;
Above the chanted “Dust to dust”
Shall rise our song of grateful trust:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
4 Happy are they in God who rest,
No more by fear and doubt oppressed,
Living or dying, they are blest:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O Lord of life, where'er they be |
Title: | O Lord of Life, Where'er They Be |
Author: | Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1888, alt. 1972) |
Meter: | 8.8.8. with Alleluias |
Publication Date: | 1972 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Acts of the Church: Witness to the Resurrection—Funeral; Civil Year: Memorial Day |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GELOBT SEI GOTT |
Composer (attributed to): | Melchoir Vulpius (1609) |
Meter: | 8.8.8. with Alleluias |
Key: | C Major |
Notes: | As in Pilgrim Hymnal, 1958 |