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Old Dutch melody in the Collection by Adrianus Valerius, 1625

In our day of thanks-giv-ing one psalm let us

of fer For the saints who be

us have found their re-ward; When the shadow of death fell upon.... them, we

sor-row'd, But

now.. we rejoice that they rest in

the Lord.

A - men.

N our day of thanksgiving one psalm let us offer

1 I

For the saints who before us have found their reward;
When the shadow of death fell upon them, we sorrowed,

But now we rejoice that they rest in the Lord.

2 In the morning of life, and at noon, and at even,
He called them away from our worship below;
But not till His mercy and tender compassion

Had girt them with grace for the way they should go.

3 These stones that have echoed their praises are holy,
And dear is the ground where their feet have once trod;
Yet here they confessed they were strangers and pilgrims,
And still they were seeking the city of God.

4 Sing praise, then, for all who here sought and here found Him,
Whose journey is ended, whose perils are past;
They believed in the Light; and its glory is round them,
Where the clouds of earth's sorrow are lifted at last.

William H. Draper, 1894, 1910