12648 | The Cyber Hymnal#12649 | 12650 |
Text: | Soon With Resistless Arm Shall Death |
Author: | Anonymous |
Tune: | SOHO |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Soon with resistless arm shall death
Assert its sovereign claim,
And summon man to yield his breath
To Him whence first it came.
2 Like crowded forest trees we stand,
And some are marked to fall:
The axe will smite at God’s command,
And soon shall smite us all.
3 Green as the bay tree, ever green,
With its new foliage on,
The gay, the thoughtless, I have seen;
I passed—and they were gone.
4 No present health can health ensure
For yet an hour to come,
No human power our life secure
And save us from the tomb.
5 Lord! may we mark the awful truth,
Revealed in sacred page—
A worm is in the bud of youth,
And at the root of age.
6 Lord! teach me henceforth so to live,
And number all my days,
That in Thy strength I now may strive
To walk in wisdom’s ways.
7 And since the fatal shafts of death
Are flying all around,
Prepare us to resign our breath,
Nor dread the threatened wound.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Soon with resistless arm shall death |
Title: | Soon With Resistless Arm Shall Death |
Author: | Anonymous |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Select Portions of the Psalms, from Various Translations by John Kempthorne (London: J. Hatchard, 1810) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: SHEPHAM by Thomas S. Dupuis, ST. AGNES by John b. Dykes, ST. MAGNUS attributed to Jeremiah Clarke |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SOHO |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby (1881) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | f♯ minor |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |