| Location in The Sacred Harp | ||||||
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| Stanza | Denson | Cooper | ||||
| 1 |
Life is the Time to serve the LORD, The Time t' insure the reat Reward; And while the Lamp holds out to burn, The vilest Sinner may return. |
Wells 28b, Stanza 1 | Life Is the Time to Serve the Lord (Wells) 28b, Stanza 1 | |||
| 2 |
[Life is the Hour that God hath giv'n; To 'scape from Hell and fly to Heav'n; The Day of Grace, and Mortals may Secure the Blessings of the Day.] |
Wells 28b, Stanza 2 | Life Is the Time to Serve the Lord (Wells) 28b, Stanza 2 | |||
| 3 |
The Living know that they must die; But all the Dead forgotten lie; Their Mem'ry and their Sense is gone, Alike unknowing and unknown. |
Wells 28b, Stanza 3 | Life Is the Time to Serve the Lord (Wells) 28b, Stanza 3 | |||
| 4 |
[Their Hatred and their Love is lost, Their Envy bury'd in the Dust; They have no Share in all that's done Beneath the Circuit of the Sun.] |
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| 5 |
Then what my Thoughts design to do, My Hands, with all your Might pursue; Since no Device nor Work is found, Nor Faith, nor Hope, beneath the Ground. |
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| 6 |
There are no Acts of Pardon past In the cold Grave to which we haste; But Darkness, Death and long Despair, Reign in eternal Silence there. |
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