Death and Resurrection

And must this body die

No. 950
Metre S. M.
Tune GORTON.
Words Isaac Watts.
Music L. Von Beethoven.
Key A major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

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And must this body die?This well-wrought frame decay?And must these active limbs of mineLie moldering in the clay?

Christ, my Redeemer, lives,And ever from the skiesLooks down, and watches all my dustTill he shall bid it rise.

Arrayed in glorious graceShall these vile bodies shine,And every form and every faceLook heavenly and divine?

O Lord, accept the praiseOf these our humble songs,Till tunes of nobler sound we raiseWith our immortal tongues.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «DEATH AND RESURRECTION.» (top of the page, over hymn 949); hymn number «950» (large), tune name «GORTON. S. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals), «L. VON BEETHOVEN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals, the V of «VON» a full capital); no margin note. Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «And»; «well-wrought» is printed as one hyphenated word (two notes), «bod - y», «de - cay», «act - ive», «mold - ering» are divided with spaced hyphens. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text below the music, under the italic reference line «946, 89.» (= the same words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 946 or 89): stanza 2 and the first half of stanza 3 in the left column, the rest of stanza 3 and stanza 4 in the right column, numbered «2»–«4» without a full stop (numbered «2.»–«4.» here like stanza 1), with «Isaac Watts.» in italics after stanza 4. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print. The printer's thin space before «?» («die ?», «decay ?», «clay ?», «divine ?») is closed up here. Spelling («moldering», «Arrayed»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.