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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: This world can never give (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1853

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: This world can never give

Topic: <no topic given>

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

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Meter: SM

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Hymn Number: Song 365

Page Number: 425, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THIS world can never give

The bliss for which we sigh;

'Tis not the whole of life to live,

Nor all of death to die.



Beyond this vale of tears

There is a life above,

Unmeasur'd by the flight of years;

And all that life is love.



There is a death whose pang

Outlasts the fleeting breath;

O what eternal horrors hang

Around that awful death!



Lord God of truth and grace,

Teach us that death to shun,

Lest we be driven from thy face,

And evermore undone.