How Swift the Torrent Rolls (EN 2691)

EN 2691 How Swift the Torrent Rolls

Zech.1.5

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1

How swift the torrent rolls

That bears to us to the sea,

The tide that hurries thoughtless souls

To vast eternity.

2

Our fathers, where are they,

With all they called their own?

Their joys and griefs, and hopes and cares,

And wealth and honor gone.

3

But joy or grief succeeds

Beyond our mortal thought;

While the poor remnant of their dust

Lies in the grave forgot.

4

There where the fathers lie,

Must all the children dwell;

Nor other heritage possess,

But such a gloomy cell.

5

God of our fathers, hear,

Thou everlasting Friend!

While we, as on life’s utmost verge,

Our souls to Thee commend.

6

Of all the pious dead

May we the footsteps trace,

Till with them, in the land of light,

We dwell before Thy face.

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