12063 | The Cyber Hymnal#12064 | 12065 |
Text: | Oh Weep Not O'er Thy Children's Tomb |
Author: | Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 |
Tune: | CLAUDIUS |
Composer: | Arthur Henry Mann |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Oh weep not o’er thy children’s tomb,
Oh Rachel, weep not so!
The bud is cropped by martyrdom,
The flower in Heav’n shall blow! *
2 Firstlings of faith! the murderer’s knife
Has missed its deadliest aim:
The God for whom they gave their life,
For them to suffer came!
3 Though feeble were their days and few,
Baptized in blood and pain,
He knows them, whom they never knew,
And they shall live again.
4 Then weep not o’er thy children’s tomb,
Oh Rachel, weep not so!
The bud is cropped by martyrdom,
The flower in Heav’n shall blow! *
* If desired, substitute
The flower in Heav’n shall grow
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First Line: | Oh weep not o’er thy children’s tomb |
Title: | Oh Weep Not O'er Thy Children's Tomb |
Author: | Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Published posthumously in Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year (London: J. Murray, 1827) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tune: HEREFORD by Frederick A. Gore-Ouseley |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CLAUDIUS |
Composer: | Arthur Henry Mann (1905) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | e minor or modal |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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