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==General information==
This is an hymn by [[Isaac Watts]], his Hymn 3 of Book 2, published 1707.

==Notes on selected settings==
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*[[Northborough (Daniel Belknap)|Daniel Belknap]] SATB
*[[Why do we mourn departing friends? (Thomas Clark)| Thomas Clark]] SATB (vv. 1,4-6)
*[[Monmouth (Jacob French)|Jacob French]] SATB
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*[[Funeral Hymn (Oliver Holden)|Oliver Holden]] SATB
*[[Alarm (Stephen Jenks)|Stephen Jenks]] SATB
*[[China (Timothy Swan)| Timothy Swan]] SATB
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==Text and translations==
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{{Text|English|
{{Vs|1}} Why do we mourn departing friends,
Or shake at death's alarms?
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them to his arms.

{{Vs|2}} Are we not tending upward too
As fast as time can move?
Nor would we wish the hours more slow
To keep us from our love.

{{Vs|3}} Why should we tremble to convey
Their bodies to the tomb?
There the dear flesh of Jesus lay,
And left a long perfume.}}
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{{Vs|4}} The graves of all his saints he blessed,
And softened every bed;
Where should the dying members rest,
But with the dying Head?

{{Vs|5}} Thence he arose, ascending high,
And showed our feet the way;
Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly,
At the great rising day.

{{Vs|6}} Then let the last loud trumpet sound,
And bid our kindred rise;
Awake, ye nations under ground;
Ye saints, ascend the skies.}}
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