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THE NATION IN TEARS IN MEMORIAN
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. MAY BE SUNG AS A SOLO, TRIO, DUETT OR FULL CHORUS. ARRANGED FOR THE PIANO OR ORGAN
WORDS BY R.C. MUSIC BY KONRAD TREUER.
THE NATION IN TEARS! A DIRGE, IN MEMORY OF THE NATION'S CHIEF.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WORDS BY R. C. MUSIC BY KONRAD TREUER.
Soprano. Alto.
1. Toll! toll! toll! on every hand, on every hand, Ye bells, ye bells thro'out the land, Ye
2. Weep! weep! weep! on every hand, on every hand, Ye heroes, heroes of the land, Ye
Tenor. Bass.
3. Mourn! mourn! mourn! on every hand, on every hand Ye patriots, patriots of the land, Ye
1. Ye bells throughout, throughout
bells thro'out the land; Our noble leader, noble leader in his glory lies; The damp of death, the
heroes of the land; Our chieftain's dead, chieftain's dead, Great God, and can it be! Alas, how brief, Alas
patriots of the land; No more, no more his honest face will greet the sun, His day, his day, his
out the land.
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damp of death upon his sealed eyes, A martyr true, a martyr true to liberty he dies. Toll! toll!
how brief is our mortality! Our Father, help, O help, and bless to us this agony. Weep! weep!
day is finished, and his labor done, A crown of glory, crown of glory rests his brow upon. Mourn! mourn!
toll! on every hand, on every hand, Ye bells thro'out thro'out the land. Toll! toll! toll!
weep! on every hand, on every hand, Ye heroes, heroes in the land. Weep! weep! weep!
mourn! on every hand, on every hand, Ye patriots, patriots in the land. Mourn! mourn! mourn!
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by W. Jennison Demordent, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Southern District of N.Y.