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| Text: | From Afar, Across The Waters |
| Author: | A. F. Rohr |
| Tune: | LOST AND FOUND |
| Composer: | J. Tilleard, 1827-1876 |
1 From afar, across the waters,
Where Atlantic's billows roar,
Lashed by hurricanes to fury
On the sands of Afric's shore,
Sweeps the cry of Macedonia:
Come and help us, come and help us.
2 From across the wide Pacific,
From the heart of Asia vast--
Asia, cradle of the nations,
Like a stirring bugle blast
Bursts the cry of Macedonia:
Come and help us, come and help us.
3 From the lands on India's ocean,
Breeders of the hot simoon,
Mothering their dying millions,
Tolling like the bells of doom,
Rolls the cry of Macedonia:
Come and help us, come and help us.
4 From the sea-engirdled islands
On the east and on the west,
With the bread of life unnourished,
By the truth of God unblest,
Breaks the cry of Macedonia:
Come and help us, come and help us.
5 From the realms which rest ashiver
Far along the polar deeps,
Where the frightful, frozen horror
Watch in awful silence keeps,
Falls the cry of Macedonia:
Come and help us, come and help us.
6 Northward, southward, eastward, westward,
Mournful as a funeral wail,
Shouting, shrieking, sobbing, sighing,
On the breeze and on the gale,
Rides the cry of Macedonia:
Come and help us, come and help us.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | From afar, across the waters |
| Title: | From Afar, Across The Waters |
| Author: | A. F. Rohr |
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7 8 8 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1930 |
| Topic: | Missions |
| Notes: | Public Domain. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | LOST AND FOUND |
| Composer: | J. Tilleard, 1827-1876 |
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7 8 8 |
| Key: | D Major |
| Notes: | Public Domain. |