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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
 
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<poem>
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.
 
The graves of all his saints he blest,
And soften'd ev'ry bed:
Where should the dying members rest,
But with their dying Head?
 
Thence he arose, ascending high,
And showed our feet the way;
Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly
At the great rising day.
 
Then let the last loud trumpet sound,
And bid our kindred rise;
Awake, ye nations under ground;
Ye saints, ascend the skies.
</poem>


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Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2011-06-01).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 35 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: The order of staves in the source is Tenor - [Alto] - Air - [Bass], with the alto part notated in the treble clef an octave above the sounding pitch. The first verse only of the text is given in the source: a selection of subsequent verses have been added editorially.

General Information

Title: Why do we mourn departing friends?
Composer: Thomas Clark
Tune: Malton
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

Published: 1805

Description: Setting of verses by Isaac Watts to a tune 'Malton', by Thomas Clark. This setting was published on pages 6-7 of Clark's collection A Sett of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, [1805]. Hymn Tune Index tune number 10901.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Why do we mourn departing friends.

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