Who Goes There, in the Night

Top Text Author Text Info Instances

Who goes there, in the night

Author: Thomas Curtis Clark (1917)
Published in 2 hymnals

Representative Text

Who goes there, in the night,
Across the storm-swept plain?

We are the ghostsof a valiant war—
A million murdered men!
Who goes there, at the dawn,
Across the sunswept plain?

We are the hosts of those who swear:
It shall not be again!AMEN

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Thomas Curtis Clark

Thomas Curtis Clark (born on January 8, 1877) author of over sixty hymns, studied at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois 1901-02 and served on the editorial staff of the Christian Century in Chicago, Illinois 1912-48. Won first prize in the 1943 Hymn Society of America nation-wide contest with his "Thou Father of Us All." --legacy.lincolnchristian.edu/library/… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Who goes there, in the night
Title:	Who Goes There, in the Night
Author:	Thomas Curtis Clark (1917)
Publication Date:	1930
Copyright:	Words copyright by Thomas Curtis Clark