Lowly and solemn be

Lowly and solemn be. Felicia Hemans* (1793-1835).  This hymn for burials is taken from Hemans’ poem, ‘The Funeral Day of Sir Walter Scott’, published in her Scenes and Hymns of Life (1834), and in her Poems (London and Edinburgh, 1875, available on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66785/66785-h/66785-h.htm).  It begins with a Blank Verse introduction.There follows a poem of nine stanzas, beginning  Lowly and solemn be Thy children’s cry to thee,   Father divine! A hymn of suppliant breath, Owning that life and death   Alike are thine!  The stanzas that follow contain material that is particular to Scott, but the last three stanzas, added to stanza 1 above, made a...