Hark, hark ! my soul ! angelic songs are swelling
O'er earth's green fields and ocean s
wave-beat shore ;
How sweet the truth those blessed
strains are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no more.
Angels, sing on ! your faithful watches keeping ;
Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above ;
Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping,
And life's long shadows break in cloudless love.
2.
Far, far away, like bells at evening
pealing, [and sea
The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land
And laden souls, by thousands meekly
stealing,
Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
3.
Onward we go, for still we hear them
singing, [bids you come " ;
" Come, weary souls ! for Jesus
And through the dark, its echoes
sweetly ringing,
The music of the Gospel leads us home.
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It’s a man looking over his family during the British Raj in India. There were many cases of cannibalism and he feared someone would try to kill and eat his children or wife. I acknowledge this is a difficult picture to look at— but I included it for a reason. Many people in the US/West aren’t even aware of the terrible famines that swept through India and which are comparable to the holocaust in deaths (an estimated ~30 million people have died in famines in India). This was taken from the Great Famine of 1876–1878, which was far worse than the infamous Bengal Famine. It was caused by a crop failure/drought and was exacerbated by the crown’s export of wheat abroad. In total, 5.6 - 9 million people died (it’s hard to get exact figures). And within huge statistics like these, are forgotten stories. These are individuals and families, who slowly faced the despair of knowing they had no food and would have no food in the near future. They faced the horror of knowing there was
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