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The living know that they must die

The living know that they must die

Tune: WINDHAM
Published in 2 hymnals

Piano/Organ

Hymn Harmonizations, Set 5

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1 The living know that they must die,
But all the dead unconscious lie;
Their powers of thought and sense are gone,
Alike unknowing the unknown.

2 Their hatred and their love are lost,
Their envy buried in the dust;
They have no share in all that's done
Beneath the circuit of the sun.

3 Then what my thoughts design to do,
My hands must hasten to pursue;
Since no device, nor work is found,
Nor faith, nor hope, beneath the ground.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #929

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