Author of life, where’er they be,
Safe in thine own eternity,
Our loved are living unto thee:
Alleluia!
All souls are thine, and here or there
They rest within thy sheltering care;
One providence alike they share:
Alleluia!
Thy Word is true, thy ways are just;
Above the requiem, "Dust to dust,"
Shall rise our psalm of grateful trust:
Alleluia!
O happy they in God who rest,
No more by fear and doubt oppressed,
Living or dying, they are blest:
Alleluia!
Frederick Lucian Hosmer, 1888; alt.
Tune: VICTORY (8.8.8. with Alleluia)
Giovanni da Palestrina, 1591
adapt. William H. Monk, 1861
Five Years Ago: The Feast of All Souls
