Oh Grand Architect of the Universe hear your children’s call!
We reverently invoke thy blessing at this the face of the deep.
Invoke in me divine powers of thee!
Let all wickedness and evil invisible be banished from your servants keep.
The hangman equals death! The Devil Equals death! Death equals death!
Here Death his sacred seal hath upon his icy brow set,
Given into sorrows of bright and by-gone hours;
Oh children, see the dead we mourn, are with us yet,
And more than ever ours.
Ours, a long forgotten glory by the pledge of love and faith;
By to lay upon your breast in the hopes of heaven on high;
By trust, and faith we shall triumphant over death,
In immortality, is all found within a child's eye !