702. By Babel's Riverside

1. By Babel’s riverside we sat in tears,
Remembering Zion’s pride in former years,
While on the weeping willows there were hung
The harps our grief had silenced and unstrung.

2. For they who led us there a captive throng
Required that we prepare for them a song;
Yea, there our captors asked for mirth and praise,
Required a song of Zion’s happy days.

3. O how shall we thus sing at their command
Songs of the Lord, our king, in this strange land?
O Zion, if I e’er forget thy woe,
Let my right hand its skill no longer know.

4. Yea, let my tongue, I pray, all silent be,
If I do not alway remember thee;
If I prefer not thee, though in thy grief,
Above all other joys my very chief.

Text Information
First Line: By Babel's riverside we sat in tears
Title: By Babel's Riverside
Author: Anonymous
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Language: English
Scripture:
Source: The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 380
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ELLERS
Composer: Edward John Hopkins (1869)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Incipit: 55651 17123 11213
Key: G Major
Source: Supplemental Tune-Book, by Brown-Borthwick, 1869
Copyright: Public Domain



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