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Text:And must this body die?
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:SHAWMUT
Arranger:Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc.

450. And must this body die?

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
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
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: SHAWMUT
Arranger: Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc. (1833)
Meter: S. M. No. 3
Key: D Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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