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Hymn: Sweet is the scene when Christians die (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist

Date: 1850

Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard

First Line: Sweet is the scene when Christians die

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Meter: LM

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Page Number: 115, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

SWEET is the scene when Christians die,

When holy souls retire to rest:

How mildly beams the closing eye!

How gently heaves th' expiring breast.



So fades a summer cloud away;

So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;

So gently shuts the eye of day;

So dies a wave along the shore.



Triumphant smiles the victor's brow,

Fanned by some guardian angel's wing;

O grave! where is thy victory now,

And where, O death, where is thy sting!



Triumphant smiles the victor's brow,

Fanned by some guardian angel's wing;

O grave! where is thy victory now,

And where, O death, where is thy sting.