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Invocation 131b

Tune: Southern Harmony, 1835
Alto: Mrs. Anna L. (Cooper) Blackshear, 1902
Lyrics: Robert Seagrave, 1742
Meter: Particular Meter: 7,6,7,6,7,7,7,6
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings,
Thy better portion trace,
Rise from transitory things
To heav’n, thy native place;
Sun, and moon, and stars decay,
Time shall soon this earth remove;
Rise, my soul, and haste away
To seats prepared above.