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| 1303 | The Cyber Hymnal#1304 | 1305 |
| Text: | Earth, with Its Dark and Dreadful Ills |
| Author: | Alice Cary |
| Tune: | SAWLEY |
| Composer: | James Walch |
| Media: | MIDI file |
1. Earth, with all its dark and dreadful ills,
Recedes and fades away;
Lift up your heads, ye heavenly hills,
Ye gates of death, give way!
2. My soul is full of whispered song;
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are all alive with light.
3. The while my pulses faintly beat,
My faith doth so abound;
I feel grow firm beneath my feet
The green immortal ground.
4. That faith to me a courage gives,
Low as the grave to go;
I know that my Redeemer lives—
That I shall live, I know.
5. The palace walls I almost see
Where dwells my Lord and king;
O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting?
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | Earth, with all its dark and dreadful ills |
| Title: | Earth, with Its Dark and Dreadful Ills |
| Author: | Alice Cary (1870) |
| Meter: | CM |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SAWLEY |
| Composer: | James Walch (1860) |
| Meter: | CM |
| Incipit: | 17653 47653 21716 |
| Key: | B♭ Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Media | |
|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat image: |  Adobe Acrobat image(Cyber Hymnal) |
| MIDI file: |  MIDI File(Cyber Hymnal) |
| Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
| XML score: | XML score |
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