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Thread #20151   Message #2998985
Posted By: Jim Dixon
03-Oct-10 - 06:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: All is Well
Subject: Lyr Add: THE DYING CHRISTIAN
Here are the lyrics that appear, along with musical notation for 3 voices, in The Evangelical Harp by Jacob Knapp (Utica: Bennett, Backus & Hawley, 1845), page 86:

[Note that repetition of certain phrases is implied but not explicit, in verses 2-5.]


THE DYING CHRISTIAN

1. What's this that steals, that steals upon my frame?
Is it death? Is it death?
That soon will quench, will quench this vital frame.
Is it death? Is it death?
If this be death, I soon shall be
From ev'ry pain and sorrow free.
I shall the King of glory see.
All is well. All is well.

2. Weep not, my friends; weep not for me.
All is well.
My sins are pardoned. I am free.
All is well.
There's not a cloud that doth arise
To hide my Savior from my eyes.
I soon shall mount the upper skies.
All is well.

3. Tune, tune your harps, ye saints in glory.
All is well.
I will rehearse the pleasing story.
All is well.
Bright angels have from glory come.
They're round my bed. they're in my room.
They wait to waft my spirit home.
All is well.

4. Hark! hark! my Lord, and Master calls me.
All is well.
I soon shall see his face in glory.
All is well.
Farewell, my friends, adieu, adieu!
I can no longer stay with you.
My glittering crown appears in view.
All is well.

5. Hail, hail, all hail! ye blood-washed throng,
Sav'd by grace.
I come to join your rapturous song,
Sav'd by grace.
All, all is peace and joy divine,
And heaven and glory now are mine.
O, hallelujah to the Lamb.
All is well.