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Text:How Many Kindred Souls Are Fled
Author (attributed to):Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Tune:TRURO
Media:MIDI file

9598. How Many Kindred Souls Are Fled

1 How many kindred souls are fled
To the vast regions of the dead,
Since from this day the changing sun
Through his last yearly period run!

2 We yet survive; but who can say,
Or through the year, or month or day,
I will retain this vital breath;
Thus far at least in league with death?

3 That breath is Thine, eternal God,
’This Thine to fix the soul’s abode;
It holds its life from Thee alone,
On earth, or in the world unknown.

4 To Thee our spirits we resign,
Make them and own them, still as Thine;
So shall they smile, secure from fear,
Though death should blast the rising year.

Text Information
First Line: How many kindred souls are fled
Title: How Many Kindred Souls Are Fled
Author (attributed to): Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: A cento from "God of My Life, Thy Constant Care." ; Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use, by Thomas Cotterill, 1810
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: TRURO
Meter: LM
Key: C Major
Source: Psalmodia Evangelica by Thomas Williams, 1789
Copyright: Public Domain



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