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God of Our Fathers, Known of Old

Author: Rudyard Kipling, 1861-1936 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 228 hymnals Refrain First Line: Lest we forget, Lest we forget Topics: World Friendship and Peace Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Words from "The Five Nations," by Rudyard Kipling.

Lord God of hosts, whose mighty hand

Author: John Oxenham Appears in 24 hymnals Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET

Gloomy Night Embraced The Place

Author: Richard Crashaw Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Gloomy night embraced the place Wherein the noble Infant lay: The Babe looked up and showed His face; In spite of darkness, it was day! It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise Not from the east, but from Thine eyes. 2 We saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal day! We saw Thine eyes break from the east And chase the trembling shades away; We saw Thee, and we blessed the sight; We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light. 3 Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span! Summer in winter, day in night! Heaven on earth, and God in Man! Great little One! Whose lowly birth, Lifts earth to Heav’n, stoops Heav’n to earth. 4 To Thee, meek Majesty! soft King Of simple graces and sweet loves; Each one of us his lamb will bring, And each his pair of silver doves; Till burnt in fire of Thy fair eyes, Ourselves become our sacrifice! Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Steps to the Temple, 1646; Cento from "Hymn of the Nativity"

God of Our Youth, to Whom We Yield

Author: William Byron Forbush, 1868-1928, alt. Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: School and College Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET

Father, Behold Us Gathered Here

Author: Kees Boeke, 1884-1966 Appears in 1 hymnal Refrain First Line: O Father, help us here below Topics: Church; Discipleship; Expectation; Guidance; Peace; Repentance and Forgiveness; Suffering Used With Tune: [Father, behold us gathered here]

Is This A Time To Plant And Build?

Author: John Keble Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Is this a time to plant and build Lyrics: 1 Is this a time to plant and build, Add house to house, and field to field, When round our walls the battle lowers, When mines are hid beneath our towers, And watchful foes are stealing round To search and spoil the holy ground? 2 Is this a time for moonlight dreams Of love and home by mazy streams, For Fancy with her shadowy toys, Aërial hopes and pensive joys, While souls are wandering far and wide, And curses swarm on every side? 3 No—rather steel thy melting heart To act the martyr’s sternest part, To watch, with firm unshrinking eye, Thy darling visions as they die, Till all bright hopes, and hues of day, Have faded into twilight gray. 4 Yes—let them pass without a sigh, And if the world seem dull and dry, If long and sad thy lonely hours, And winds have rent thy sheltering bowers, Bethink thee what thou art and where, A sinner in a life of care. 5 The fire of God is soon to fall (Thou know’st it) on this earthly ball; Full many a soul, the price of blood, Marked by th’ Almighty’s hand for good, To utter death that hour shall sweep— And will the saints in Heaven dare weep? 6 Then in His wrath shall God uproot The trees He set, for lack of fruit, And drown in rude tempestuous blaze The towers His hand had deigned to raise; In silence, ere that storm begin, Count o’er His mercies and thy sin. 7 Pray only that thine aching heart, From visions vain content to part, Strong for Love’s sake its woe to hide May cheerful wait the Cross beside, Too happy if, that dreadful day, Thy life be given thee for a prey. 8 natched sudden from th’ avenging rod, Safe in the bosom of Thy God, How wilt thou then look back, and smile On thoughts the bitterest seemed erewhile, And bless the pangs that made thee see This was no world of rest for thee! Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: The Christian Year, 1827

O God The Great

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: O God the great, the fearful God Lyrics: 1 O God the great, the fearful God, To Thee we humbly sue for peace, Groaning beneath a nation’s load, And crushed by our own wickedness Our guilt we tremble to declare, And pour out our sad souls in prayer. 2 Thee we revere, the faithful Lord, Keeping the covenant of Thy grace, True to Thine everlasting Word, Loving to all who seek Thy face, And keep Thy kind commands, and prove Their faith by their obedient love. 3 But we have only evil wrought, Have done to our good God despite, Rebellious with our Maker fought, And sinned against the Gospel light, Departed from His righteous ways, And fallen, fallen from His grace. 4 We have not hearkened to the Word Thy prophets and apostles spoke; In them we disobeyed their Lord: Our princes have cast off the yoke, Our kings Thy sovereign will withstood, Our fathers have denied their God. 5 The rich, and poor, the high, and low, Have trampled on Thy mild command; The floods of wickedness o’erflow, And deluge all our guilty land, People and priest lie drowned in sin, And Tophet yawns to take us in. 6 Righteousness, Lord, belongs to Thee, But guilt to us, and foul disgrace, Confusion, shame, and misery Is due to all our faithless race, Scattered by sin where’er we rove, Vile rebels ’gainst Thy pardoning love. 7 Confusion, misery, and shame Our loudly-crying sins require, Our princes, kings, and fathers claim Their portion in eternal fire, For all the downward path have trod, For all have sinned against their God. 8 But O, forgivenesses are Thine Far above all our hearts conceive, The glorious property divine Is still to pity and forgive, With Thee is full redemption found, And grace doth more than sin abound. 9 All may in Thee our gracious Lord Forgivenesses and mercies find, Though we Thy warnings have abhorred, And cast Thy precepts all behind, The voice divine refused t’obey, And started from Thy plainest way. 10 All Israel have transgressed Thy law, And therefore did the curse take place, Our sins did all Thy judgments draw In showers on our devoted race, Thou hast fulfilled Thy threatening Word, We bear the fury of the Lord. 11 Justly we all Thine anger bear, Chastised for our iniquity, Yet made we not our humble prayer, Yet have we not returned to Thee, Renounced our sins, or longed to prove The truth of Thy forgiving love. 12 Therefore the Lord, the jealous God Hath watched to bring the evil days, Bruised us with His avenging rod, Who would not His still voice obey, Righteous is God in all His ways: We forced Him to withdraw His grace. 13 Yet now, O Lord our God, at last Our sins and wickedness we own; We call to mind Thy mercies past, The ancient days of Thy renown, The wonders Thou for us hast wrought, The arm that out of Egypt brought. 14 O Lord, according to Thy love, Thy utmost power of love, we pray Thine anger and Thy plague remove; Turn from Jerusalem away The curse and punishment we feel, Thou know’st we are Thy people still. 15 The holy mountain of our God, The city Thou hast built below, Thy people, though dispersed abroad, A proverb of reproach and woe, We have our fathers’ sins filled up, And drunk the bitter trembling cup. 16 Now then acknowledge us for Thine, Regard Thine humbled servant’s prayer, And cause on us Thy face to shine, The ruins of Thy Church repair, O for the sake of Christ the Lord, Let all our souls be now restored. 17 My God, incline Thine ear, and hear, Open Thine eyes our wastes to see, Thy fallen desolate Sion cheer, The city which is named by Thee; Not for our cry the grace be shown, But hear, in Jesus hear Thine own. 18 All our desert, we own, is hell, But spare us for Thy mercy sake, We humbly to Thy grace appeal, And Jesus’ wounds our refuge make, O let us all Thy mercy prove, The riches of Thy pardoning love. 19 O Lord, attend, O Lord forgive, O Lord, regard our prayer, and do, Hasten, my God, and bid us live, The fullness of Thy mercy show, Thy city, and Thy people own, And perfect all our souls in one. Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution by John and Charles Wesley (London: Strahan, 1744)

Father in heaven, who lovest all

Author: Rudyard Kipling Appears in 81 hymnals Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET

Dear Dying Lamb

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Dear dying Lamb, for whom alone Lyrics: 1 Dear dying Lamb, for whom alone We suffer pain, and shame, and loss, Hear Thine afflicted people groan, Crushed by the burden of Thy cross, And bear our fainting spirits up, And bless the bitter, sacred cup. 2 Drunkards, and slaves of lewd excess, Bad, lawless men, Thou knowst, we lived: The world, and we were then at peace, No devil his own servants grieved; Evil we did, but suffered none: The world will always love its own. 3 But now we would Thy Word obey, And strive to escape the wrath divine, Exposed to all, a helpless prey, Bruised by our enemies, and Thine, As sheep midst ravening wolves we lie, And daily grieve, and daily die. 4 Smitten, we turn the other cheek, Our ease, and name, and goods forego, Help, or redress no longer seek In any child of man below; The powers Thou didst for us ordain, For us they bear the sword in vain. 5 But wilt Thou not at last appear, Into Thine hand the matter take? We look for no protection here, But Thee our only refuge make, To Thee, O righteous Judge, appeal, And wait Thy just and perfect will. 6 Thou wilt not shut Thy bowels up, Or justice to the oppressed deny; Thy mercy’s ears Thou cannot stop, Against the mournful prisoners’ cry, Who ever make our humble moan, And look for help to Thee alone. 7 Then help us meekly to sustain The cross of man’s oppressive power, To slight the shame, endure the pain, And calmly wait the welcome hour, That brings the fiery chariot down, And whirls us to our heav’nly crown. Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol, England, Felix Farley, 1739) Vol. II

Servant of God, And Son Of Man

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Servant of God, and Son of Man, Eternal Son of God Most High; Fulfill the great redeeming plan, Which brought Thee, Savior, from the sky, Anointed by Thy Spirit and sealed, With all His glorious fullness filled. 2 His soul’s delight, His best beloved, Give us Thyself and Him to know; The righteousness by God approved, To us poor sinful Gentiles show; The righteousness which faith imparts, Impute, implant it on our hearts. 3 Jesus, for this we still attend, Thy kingdom in the isles to prove, The law of sin and death to end, We wait for all the power of love; The law of perfect liberty, The law of life, which is in Thee! 4 O might it now from Thee proceed, With Thee, into the souls of men; Throughout the world Thy Gospel spread, And let Thy glorious Spirit reign, On all the ransomed race bestowed, And fill the universe with God. Used With Tune: LEST WE FORGET Text Sources: Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (London: William Strahan, 1745)