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Thread #23695   Message #267644
Posted By: katlaughing
29-Jul-00 - 11:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: It Is The Twilight Hour - A Serenade
Subject: Lyr Add: TEMPERANCE HYMN
Okay, Joe, if I understood you correctly, you want all the lyrics from this book, in this thread, right? Okay, here is another, although it has no tune listed in the book. (I'll bet my grandma sang this one...she was a proud member of the Christian Women's Temperance Union.)Also, I didn't find anything like it in the DT, so here it is:

The following hymn appeared first in the Parish Hymns, a collection which has come into extensive use in Presbyterian and Congregational churches, for evening meetings:

Temperance Hymn

Mourn for the thousands slain --
The youthful and the strong;
Mourn for the wine-cup's fatal reign,
And the deluded throng.

Mourn for the tarnished gem --
For Reason's light divine
Quenched from the soul's bright diadem,
Where God had bid it shine.

Mourn for the ruined soul --
Eternal life and light,
Lost by the fiery, maddening bowl,
And turned to hopeless night.

Mourn for the lost -- but pray,
Pray to our God above,
To break the fell destroyer's sway,
And show His saving love.