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Text:What Sweet of Life Endureth?
Author:John of Damascus, 675-749
Translator (from Greek): J. Athelstan Riley
Tune:CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Composer:Melchior Vulpius
Media:MIDI file

7269. What Sweet of Life Endureth?

1. What sweet of life endureth
Unmixed with bitter pain?
’Midst earthly change and chances
What glory doth remain?

2. All is a feeble shadow,
A dream that will not stay;
Death cometh in a moment,
And taketh all away.

3. O Christ, a light transcendent
Shines in Thy countenance,
And none can tell the sweetness,
The beauty of Thy glance.

4. In this may Thy poor servant
His joy eternal find;
Thou calledst him, O rest him,
Thou lover of mankind!

Text Information
First Line: What sweet of life endureth
Title: What Sweet of Life Endureth?
Greek Title: Ποία τοῦ βίού τρυϕὴ διαμένει λύπης ἀμέτοχος
Author: John of Damascus, 675-749
Translator (from Greek): J. Athelstan Riley
Meter: 76.76
Language: English
Source: translation in The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), number 361
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Composer: Melchior Vulpius (1609)
Meter: 76.76
Incipit: 13234 53654 32356
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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