LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| Writer(s): | 1912 The Psalter
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1912
| Bible Refs: | Ps 127
| Presbyterian Hymn Book
| 1990
| 238
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 291
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MUSIC
| Name: | ILLA
| | Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| Writer(s): | Lowell Mason
| Dates: | 1841
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Alternate Tunes
| ROSE HILL | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | Joseph Emerson Sweetser | | | 1. Unless the Lord
the house shall build,
The weary builders toil in vain;
Unless the Lord the city shield,
The guards a useless watch maintain.
2. In vain you rise ere morning break,
And late your nightly vigils keep,
And of the bread of toil partake;
God gives to His belovèd sleep.
3. Lo, children are a great reward,
A gift from God in very truth;
With arrows is his quiver stored
Who joys in children of his youth.
4. And blest the man
whose age is cheered
By stalwart sons and daughters fair;
No enemies by him are feared,
No lack of love, no want of care.
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