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Delmenhorst L.M.

By Fynn Titford-Mock

Key
E minor
Type
Fuging tune
Time signature
4
4
Composed
2013
Text
Isaac Watts, 1719

Description

Written for the Sacred Harp singers in Bremen, Germany, and named for the location of their 2013 All-Day Singing.


Text

Why should we start and fear to die?
What tim'rous worms we mortals are!
Death is the gate to endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.

O, if my Lord would come and meet,
My soul should stretch her wings in haste,
Fly fearless through death's iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she passed.