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| Text: | O Where Are Kings and Empires Now? |
| Author: | Arthur Cleveland Coxe |
| Tune: | WILTSHIRE |
| Composer: | George Thomas Smart, (1776-1867) |
1 O where are kings and empires now
Of old that went and came?
But, Lord, Thy Church is praying yet,
A thousand years the same.
2 We mark her goodly battlements
And her foundations strong;
We hear within the solemn voice
Of her unending song.
3 For not like kingdoms of the world
Thy holy Church, O God!
Though earthquake shocks are threatening her,
And tempests are abroad,
4 Unshaken as eternal hills,
Immovable she stands,
A mountain that shall fill the earth,
A house not made by hands.
Amen.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | O where are kings and empires now |
| Title: | O Where Are Kings and Empires Now? |
| Author: | Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1839) |
| Meter: | C. M. |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1937 |
| Topic: | The Church: General |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | WILTSHIRE |
| Composer: | George Thomas Smart, (1776-1867) |
| Meter: | C. M. |
| Key: | B♭ Major |
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