Here's the full text of Isaac Watt's poem:

657. (Hymn 31. B. 2. L. M.)
Christ's presence makes death easy.

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

2 The pains, the groans, and dying strife,
Fright our approaching souls away ;
Still we shrink back again to life,
Fond of our prison and our clay.

3 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 past.

4 Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are,
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.

Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Source: The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts, ed. by John Rippon, 1831.


The text "Rejoice with all the saints this day" appears to have been written by Harry Hagan, 2001.


To add to your Harmony list, I know of:
The Christian Harmony (Jeremy Ingalls, [Newbury VT], 1805; not shaped, but in that tradition)
Kentucky Harmony (Ananias Davisson, 1816, 1817 exp., 1819, 1821, 1826)
        Supplement, 1825
The Missouri Harmony (Carden, 1820; used by Abe Lincoln)
Northern Harmony (early 19th c.)
The Harmonia Sacra (Joseph Funk and sons, 1832)
        26th ed. 2008 [with MIDIs]
The Juvenile Harmony (1836)
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (William Walker, New Haven, 1835, 1847; 4-shape) See also:
        http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/SH/1
        http://www.ccel.org/ccel/walker/harmony/files/harmony.html
The Continental Harmony ("Father" R.C. Kemp, 1857)
Christian Harmony (Dr. William Walker, 1866; 7-shape)
Northern Harmony (Larry Gordon, 1979; 4th ed. 1998)
The Norumbega Harmony (Stephen A. Marini, 2003)
Northampton Harmony

There was much borrowing among these collections. You can find the music and texts for the songs in some of these collections at www.shapenote.net. For the lesser collections, they only list and provide songs not contained in (and reproduced from) the more significant collections.