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Text:Brief Life Is Here Our Portion
Author:Bernard of Cluny
Translator:John Mason Neale
Tune:ST. ALPHEGE
Composer:Henry J. Gauntlett

81. Brief Life Is Here Our Portion

1 Brief life is here our portion;
Brief sorrow, short-lived care:
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life is there.

2 And now we fight the battle,
But then shall wear the crown
Of full, and everlasting,
And passionless renown.

3 The morning shall awaken,
The shadows shall decay,
And each true-hearted servant
Shall shine as doth the day.

4 There God, our King and Portion,
In fullness of His grace,
Shall we behold for ever,
And worship face to face.

Text Information
First Line: Brief life is here our portion
Title: Brief Life Is Here Our Portion
Author: Bernard of Cluny (c. 1140)
Translator: John Mason Neale (1849)
Meter: 7.6.7.6
Language: English
Publication Date: 1997
Scripture:
Topic: Heaven: Eternal Home
Tune Information
Name: ST. ALPHEGE
Composer: Henry J. Gauntlett (1852)
Meter: 7.6.7.6
Key: G Major



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