Why Should We Start, and Fear to Die? (EN 690)

EN 690 Why Should We Start, and Fear to Die?

Ps.23.1

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Why should we start and fear to die?

What tim’rous worms we mortals are!

Death is the gate of endless joy,

And yet we dread to enter there.

2

The pains, the groans, the 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 passed.

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.

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