Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: Earth to earth and dust to dust
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 173
Page Number: 197, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics"EARTH to earth, and dust to dust:"
Here the evil and the just-
Here the matron and the maid
In one silent bed are laid.
Here the vassal and the king
Side by side lie withering;
Here the sword and sceptre rust;
"Earth to earth and dust to dust."
Age on age shall roll along
O'er this pale and mighty throng:
Those that wept them, those that weep,
All shall with these sleepers sleep.
Song of peace, or battle's roar,
Ne'er shall break their slumbers more:
Death shall keep his solemn trust:
"Earth to earth and dust to dust."
But a day is coming fast,
Earth! thy mightiest and thy last:
It shall come in strife and toil-
It shall come in blood and spoil-
It shall come in empires groans,
Burning temples, trampled thrones;
Then ambition rue thy lust:
"Earth to earth and dust to dust."
Then shall come the judgement sign;
In the east the King shall shine:
Flashing from heaven's golden gate,
Thousand thousands round his state.
Heaven shall open on our sight:
Earth be turned to living light:
Kingdoms of the ransomed just;
"Earth to earth and dust to dust."
Then shall in the desert rise
Fruits of more than paradise:
Earth by angel feet be trod;
One great garden of her God.
Till are dried her martyrs tears
Through a glorious thousand years,
Now in hope of Him we trust:
"Earth to earth and dust to dust."