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Text:O Where Are Kings and Empires Now?
Author:Arthur C. Coxe
Tune:TALLIS' ORDINAL
Composer:Thomas Tallis
Media:MIDI file

5499. O Where Are Kings and Empires Now?

1. O where are kings and empires now
Of old, that went and came?
But Lord, Thy Church is praying yet,
A thousand years the same.

2. We mark her goodly battlements
And her foundations strong;
We hear, within, the solemn voice
Of her unending song.

3. For not like kingdoms of the world
Thy holy Church, O God,
Though earthquake shocks are threat’ning her,
And tempests are abroad.

4. Unshaken as eternal hills,
Immovable she stands,
A mountain that shall fill the earth,
A house not made by hands.

Text Information
First Line: O where are kings and empires now
Title: O Where Are Kings and Empires Now?
Author: Arthur C. Coxe (1839)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: At the 1873 general conference of the Evangelical Alliance in New York City, President Woolsey of Yale University quoted the first stanza of this hymn while speaking of the world's skeptical attitude toward prayer. The applause was thunderous.
Tune Information
Name: TALLIS' ORDINAL
Composer: Thomas Tallis (ca. 1567)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 13455 66551 76651
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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