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  1. 1Through sorrow's night and danger's path,
  2. Amid the deepening gloom,
  3. We soldiers of an injur'd King
  4. Are marching to the tomb.
  5. 2There, when the turmoil is no more,
  6. And all our powers decay,
  7. Our cold remains in solitude
  8. Shall sleep the years away.
  9. 3Our labours done, securely laid
  10. In this our last retreat,
  11. Unheeded o'er our silent dust
  12. The storms of life shall beat.
  13. 4Yet not thus lifeless, thus inane,
  14. The vital spark shall lie,
  15. For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise
  16. To seek its kindred sky.
  17. 5These ashes too, this little dust,
  18. Our Father's care shall keep,
  19. Till the last angel rise, and break
  20. The long and dreary sleep.
  21. 6Then love's soft dew o'er every eye
  22. Shall shed its mildest rays,
  23. And the long silent dust shall burst
  24. With shouts of endless praise.

About this music

ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Through Sorrow's Night And Danger's Path page.

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