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Hymn: Hark from the tombs a doleful sound (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: Hark from the tombs a doleful sound

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: Kirby

Meter: CM

Tune: Windsor

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 058, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Hark!  From the tombs a doleful sound,

Mine ears, attend the cry;

"Ye living men, come view the ground

Where you must shortly lie."



"Princes, this clay must be your bed,

In spite of all your towers;

The tall, the wise, the rev'rend head,

Shall lie as low as ours."