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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Why sleep you poor sinner awake and arise (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: Why sleep you poor sinner awake and arise

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Hymn Number: 549

Page Number: 281, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

WHY sleep you, poor sinner, awake and arise;

O why should you slumber in sight of the prize?

Salvation is near you, your day is far spent,

Arise, O be active, believe and repent.