The Children's Song, a hymn by Felix Adler (1888)

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Date: 2022-07-28

Last Updated: 2025-02-18

Categories: Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., cemetery prayers, child mortality, children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, Ethical Humanism, hymns, memento mori, universalist, גלגול נפשות gilgul nefashot

Excerpt: "The Children's Song" is a hymn by Felix Adler, first published in The Ethical Record vol. 1, no. 1. (April 1888), sheet music page 5. . . .

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	The Children’s Song
	We hold our lives like lily flow’rs. May we be pure as they and white, May sunlight shine up on our hours, And we be sweet in all men’s sight;
	And when at last our winter nighs, Oh may on earth our seeds we strew, Which from the dust shall re-arise To bloom in other flow’rs anew.

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“The Children’s Song” is a hymn by Felix Adler, first published in The Ethical Record vol. 1, no. 1. (April 1888), sheet music page 5.

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Contributor: Felix Adler

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  Name: Felix Adler
  Bio: Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933) was a German-Jewish American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader, and social reformer who, in 1876, founded the Ethical Culture movement. Felix Adler was the son of Rabbi Samuel Adler of Temple Emanu-El, the most prominent reform synagogue in New York City.
  Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Adler_(professor)
  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/felix-adler
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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
  Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
  Website: https://aharon.varady.net
  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/aharon-varady-transcription

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Title: Three_Hepburn_children_standing_among_lilies_(I0003935).tif
Caption: Three Hepburn children standing among lilies (1905)