Hymns, Selected and Original ‎#708

708. Why should we start and fear to die?

1 Why should we start or fear to die?
What timorous worms we mortals are!
Death is the gate of endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.

2 The pains, the groans, and dying strife,
Fright our approaching souls away:
Still we shrink back again to life,
Fond of our prison and our clay.

3 O, if my Lord would come and meet,
My soul should stretch her wings in haste,
Fly fearless through death's iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she past.

4 Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are,
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.

Text Information

• First Line: Why should we start and fear to die?
• Meter: L. M.
• Publication Date: 1828
• Topic: Christ's Presence makes Death Easy; Death
• Notes: Public Domain.

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