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Text:Why Should We Start, and Fear to Die?
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:ZEPHYR
Composer:William B. Bradbury
Media:MIDI file

7670. Why Should We Start, and Fear to Die?

1. Why should we start and fear to die?
What timorous worms we mortals are!
Death is the gate of endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.

2. The pains, the groans, the dying strife,
Fright our approaching souls away;
Still we shrink back again to life,
Fond of our prison and our clay.

3. O, if my Lord would come and meet,
My soul should stretch her wings in haste,
Fly fearless through death’s iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she passed.

4. 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.

Text Information
First Line: Why should we start and fear to die?
Title: Why Should We Start, and Fear to Die?
Author: Isaac Watts (1707-9)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ZEPHYR
Composer: William B. Bradbury (1844)
Meter: LM
Incipit: 55561 65324 32354
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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