Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Hark from the tombs a doleful sound (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1829

Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams

Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell

First Line: Hark from the tombs a doleful sound

Topic: Funeral

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 269

Page Number: 296, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Hark!  From the tombs a doleful sound;

My ears attend the cry;

Ye living men come view the ground

Where you must shortly lie.



Princes, this clay must be your bed,

In spite of all your towers;

The tall the wise, the reverend head

Must lie as low as ours.



Great God!  Is this our certain doom,

And are we still secure?

Still walking downwards to the tomb,

And yet prepare no more!



Grant us the power of quick'ning grace,

To fit our souls to fly;

Then, when we drop this dying flesh,

We'll rise above the sky.