Death and Resurrection

Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims

No. 943
Metre C. M.
Tune LILLIE.
Words Isaac Watts.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key F major
Time 3/4
3 stanzas

Words

Hear what the voice from heaven proclaimsFor all the pious dead:Sweet is the savor of their names,And soft their sleeping bed.

They die in Jesus and are blessed;How calm their slumbers are!From suffering and from sin released,And safe from every snare.

Freed from this world of toil and strife,They 're sleeping in the Lord;Freed from the ills of mortal life,They wait a rich reward.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «DEATH AND RESURRECTION.»; hymn number «943» (large), tune name «LILLIE. C. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals), «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); printed vertically in the right margin beside the two systems, reading downward, «Copyrighted 1886» (system 1) and «by F. E. Belden.» (system 2). Stanza 1 is interlinear, one line per system, with «1.» before «Hear» («pi - ous», «sav - or», «sleep - ing» hyphenated under their notes; «proclaims» is printed unhyphenated under its two notes; «heaven» is sung as one syllable). The italic reference line «179, 581.» (= the words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 179 ORTONVILLE or 581 MANOAH) stands under the music in the left column; stanza 2 follows in the left column and stanza 3 in the right column, numbered «2» and «3» without a point (written «2.»–«3.» here as in the other deliveries), with «Isaac Watts.» in italics after stanza 3. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. «They 're» (stanza 3) is set with a space before the apostrophe and is written so, as «I 'll» in HT_0077 and other deliveries. The print's thin space before «:», «;» and «!» is closed up. Spelling («savor», «blessed»), punctuation and capitals are the print's; apostrophes are written straight.