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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Oh why should we weep o'er the dust (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: Oh why should we weep o'er the dust

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: W Billings

Meter:

Tune: Savannah

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 183, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Oh why should we weep o'er the dust

Of friends who have fallen asleep?

Their graves will soon open, we trust,

And yield us the bodies they keep.