LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1707
| Bible Refs: | Ps 49:15
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 2
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| 63
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MUSIC
| Name: | CHESHIRE
| | Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| Writer(s): | Este's Psalter
| Dates: | 1592
|  Living Praise
| 166
| Em
| Songs of Fellowship 2
| 951
| Em
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 461
| G
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 647
| G
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Alternate Tunes
| BANGOR | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | William Tans'ur | | HEREFORD | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Frederick A. G. Ouseley | | SONG 67 | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Orlando Gibbons | | FUNERAL THOUGHT | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | A Compilation of Genuine Churc | |
| 1. Hark! from the tombs
a doleful sound;
My ears, attend the cry;
“Ye living men,
come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.
2. “Princes, this clay
must be your bed,
In spite of all your towers;
The tall, the wise,
the rev’rend head
Must lie as low as ours!”
3. Great God! is this
our certain doom?
And are we still secure?
Still walking downward
to our tomb,
And yet prepare no more?
4. Grant us the powers
of quick’ning grace,
To fit our souls to fly,
Then, when we drop
this dying flesh,
We’ll rise above the sky.
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