Death and Resurrection

Earth to earth and dust to dust

No. 956
Metre 7s. 6l.
Tune GETHSEMANE.
Words Anon.
Music Richard Redhead.
Key D major
Time 4/4
4 stanzas

Words

Earth to earth and dust to dust,Lord, we own the sentence just;Head and tongue, and hand and heart,All in guilt have borne their part:Righteous is the common doom,—All must moulder in the tomb.

Like the seed in spring-time sown,Like the leaves in autumn strown,Low these goodly frames shall lie,All our pomp and glory die;Soon the spoiler seeks his prey,Soon he bears us all away.

Yet the seed, upraised, againClothes with green the smiling plain;Onward as the seasons move,Leaves and blossoms deck the grove;And shall we forgotten lie,Lost forever when we die?

Lord, from nature's gloomy nightTurn we to the gospel's light;Thou didst triumph o'er the grave,Thou wilt all thy people save;Ransomed by thy blood they rise,Mounting victors to the skies.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «DEATH AND RESURRECTION.»; hymn number «956» (large), tune name «GETHSEMANE. 7s. 6l.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «RICHARD REDHEAD.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). No reference line (the hymn has its own tune). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system (three verse lines each), with «1.» before «Earth» (the E is a damaged letter); under the staves «sen-tence», «com - mon» and «mould-er» are hyphenated, «Righteous» is printed whole under its two notes; the print closes up «guilthaveborne» and «doom,—All». Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in two columns below the music (stanza 3 continues at the top of the right column without a new number: «Leaves and blossoms deck the grove; / And shall we forgotten lie, / Lost forever when we die?»); no line is indented. «Anon.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «;», «:» and «?» («just ;», «die ;», «plain ;», «grove ;», «die ?», «light ;», «save ;»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophes are written straight («nature's», «gospel's», «o'er»). The text stanzas are numbered «2»–«4» without a period in the print; they are written «2.»–«4.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book. Spelling («spring-time», «forever», «mould-er»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.