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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: J Robertson

Meter: CM

Tune: Fiducia

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 083, 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 reverend head,

Must lie as low as ours."