Lutheran Hymnody
The Hymns
DEATH AND BURIAL
593
Why do We Mourn Departing Friends
C. M.
Mark 5: 39
Isaac Watts, 1707, alt.
Domine, clamavi
Justin H. Knecht, 1797
ened
ies
as
at
ev
to
time
death’s
too,
And
Their
As
Or
blest
vey
friends
soft
bod
fast
shake
bed.
tomb?
move?
larms?
’ry
the
can
a
graves
should
we
do
of
we
not
we
3
Why
2
Are
1
Why
The
4
He
saints
to
up
part
ing
ward,
con
tend
mourn
all
the
ble
ing
de
trem
Head?
gloom.
Love.
arms.
A
them
their
tered
us
ing
the
our
His
dy
all
from
to
hours
’Tis
men.
Nor
There
Where
dy
flesh
wish
voice
the
dear
we
the
mem
Je
Je
ing
of
the
that
should
the
would
but
And
But
To
To
scat
with
keep
call
bers
sus
more
sus
rest
lay
slow
sends
5
Thence He arose, ascending high,
And showed our feet the way.
Up to the Lord we, too, shall fly
At the great rising-day.
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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