Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: How many generations dead Lyrics:
1 How many generations dead
Dwell in the dust on which we tread!
How many yet may spring to birth,
When we are seen no more on earth!
2 Till, of past, present and to come,
Time shall cast up the destined sum,
And, name by name, through that amount,
Call every soul to strict account.
3 Where’er ensepulchered they lie,
Each then must answer, "Here am I!"
And once, but once, all Adam’s race
Meet for a moment face to face.
4 Then shall the King on either side,
As sheep from goats, the throng divide,
And those to bliss, and these to woe,
Rejoicing or lamenting go.
5 How small to that assembly this!
Yet heirs like them of woe or bliss:
Were the last trumpet now to sound,
With sheep or goats would we be found?
6 "Guilty" we plead, O Judge of all!
Guilty into Thine hands we fall;
The friend of sinners still art Thou;
Save or we perish, save us now!
Used With Tune: STORRS Text Sources: Sacred Poems and Hymns, (New York: D. Appleton, 1854)
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