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Hymn: Why do we mourn departing friends (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: Why do we mourn departing friends

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune: Clifford

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 107, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Why do we mourn departing friends,

Or shake at death's alarms?

 Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,

 Tis but the voice that Jesus sends

To call them to his arms,

To call them to his arms.



Why should we tremble to convey

Their bodies to the tomb?

Twas there the flesh of Jesus lay,

Twas there the flesh of Jesus lay.

And left along perfume,

And left along perfume.



Then let the last loud trumpet sound,

And bid our kindred rise:

Awake, ye nations underground,

Awake, ye nations underground;

Ye saints, ascend the skies,

Ye saints, ascend the skies.