Who wrote this hymn?

[JM]

It's set to Auld Lang Syne, but who wrote it? Was it Clark or Watts?

Thank you.

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PS: What's Eriksen playing?

 

[LawrenceU]

Clark.

It is a bajo sexto: 12 string Spanish/Mexican bass guitar.

 

[JM]

Clark.

It is a bajo sexto: 12 string Spanish/Mexican bass guitar.

Thank you Lawrence, I had seen the tags bajo sexto on YouTube but I'm not familiar with Spanish. I think this will be my funeral song.

 

[bug]

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound;
My ears, attend the cry;
“Ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.

“Princes, this clay must be your bed,
In spite of all your towers;
The tall, the wise, the rev’rend head
Must lie as low as ours!”

Great God! is this our certain doom?
And are we still secure?
Still walking downward to our tomb,
And yet prepare no more?

Grant us the powers of quick’ning grace,
To fit our souls to fly,
Then, when we drop this dying flesh,
We’ll rise above the sky.

Isaac Watts, (Hymn 63, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II.) it is usually sang to Bangor. I have heard it sung to Alud Lang Syne before, although I believe the Free mason do so.

 

[JM]

I've seen A. Clark listed as the author...Watts as well...

 

[bug]

I've seen A. Clark listed as the author...Watts as well...

I would go with Watts simply because it is found in his hymn book. There is a list of his hymns to be found here;
http://www.pdmusic.org/biographies/Watts Isaac Watts.pdf