In spite of all your towers;
The tall, the wise, the reverend head
Must lie as low as ours.”
Grant us the power of quickening grace,
To fit our souls to fly;
Then, when we drop this dying flesh,
We’ll rise above the sky.
The tune is the same as the popular ‘Old Grimes is Dead’ and ‘Auld Lang Syne’. It occurs also OSH 162 and CHH 94. The Methodist Hymnal (1935) attributes it to William Shield. In the Southern Harmony its author is given as A. Clark.
No. 129
[SAWYER’S EXIT], OSH 338
Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)