Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: Why should we start and fear to die
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: LM
Tune: Kingsbridge
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 046, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhy should we start and fear to die?
What tim'rous worms we mortals are;
Death is the gate to endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.
The pains, the groans, the dying strife,
Fright our approaching souls away;
And we shrink back again to life,
Fond of our prison and our clay.
O if my Lord would come and meet,
My soul would stretch her wings in haste;
Fly fearless through death's iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she pass'd.
Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are;
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.