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SONGS OF ZION.
Sing us one of the Songs of Zion.
—Psalm cxxxvii. 3.
Sing them, my children, sing them still,
Those sweet and holy songs!
Oh, let the psalms of Zion hill
Be heard from youthful tongues.
Those sweet and holy songs!
Oh, let the psalms of Zion hill
Be heard from youthful tongues.
O sing them at the cheerful dawn,
The rising morn to cheer;
And sing them round the evening hearth,
When fires are blazing clear.
The rising morn to cheer;
And sing them round the evening hearth,
When fires are blazing clear.
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Sing them when Sabbath schools are met,
And your young voices raise
Their Sabbath-evening melodies
To their Redeemer's praise.
And your young voices raise
Their Sabbath-evening melodies
To their Redeemer's praise.
So shall each unforgotten word,
When distant far you roam,
Call back your hearts which once it stirred,
To childhood's blessed home.
When distant far you roam,
Call back your hearts which once it stirred,
To childhood's blessed home.
Sing them, my children; many a saint
These holy strains has sung!
These hills of ours have echoed them
From many a martyr's tongue.
These holy strains has sung!
These hills of ours have echoed them
From many a martyr's tongue.
Oh, sing them in a land like this,
Where martyr's steps have roved;
My children, sing those melodies,—
The songs our fathers loved!
Where martyr's steps have roved;
My children, sing those melodies,—
The songs our fathers loved!
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