Why Do We Mourn Departing Friends?
- Words:
- Isaac Watts (1707)
- Music:
- Rev. W. H. Havergal (1793-1870)
Sheet music
Why do we mourn departing friends…
In the hymnals
- Written in 1709, the words are in 529 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.