Text: | And must this body die? |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | SHAWMUT |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc. |
1 And must this body die?
This mortal frame decay?
And must these active limbs of mine
Lie mould'ring in the clay?
2 Corruption, earth, and worms,
Shall but refine this flesh,
Till my triumphant spirit comes
To put it on afresh.
3 God, my Redeemer, lives,
And ever, from the skies,
Looks down and watches all my dust,
Till He shall bid it rise.
4 Arrayed in glorious grace
Shall these vile bodies shine,
And ev'ry shape, and ev'ry face,
Look heav'nly and divine.
5 These lively hopes we owe
To Jesus' dying love;
We would adore His grace below,
And sing His power above.
6 Dear Lord, accept the praise
Of these our humble songs,
Till tunes of nobler sound we raise
With our immortal tongues.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | And must this body die? |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1707) |
Meter: | S. M. No. 3 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1908 |
Topic: | Christian Life and Hope: The Consummation: Hope of Resurrection and Future Life |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SHAWMUT |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc. (1833) |
Meter: | S. M. No. 3 |
Key: | D Major |