Death and Resurrection

Dust, receive thy kindred

No. 965
Metre 6s & 5s. D.
Tune REPOSE.
Words Horatius Bonar.
Music Edwin Barnes.
Key D-flat major
Singing key D♭ major
Time 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

Dust, receive thy kindred!Earth take now thine own!To thee this trust is rendered;In thee this seed is sown.Guard the precious treasure.Ever-faithful tomb!Keep it all unrifled,Till the Master come.

Time's dark tide of sorrowBreaks above thy head;And feet of restless millionsShall o'er thy chambers tread;Earthquakes, whirlwinds, tempests,Tear the quivering ground;Voices, trumpets, thunders,Fill the air around!

But these sounds of terrorPierce not thy low tomb,Nor break the happy slumbersOf death's dark, silent home.Couch of tranquil slumberFor the weary brow;Rest of faint and toiling,Take this loved one now.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «965», tune name «REPOSE. 6s & 5s. D.» centred over the music («D.» in a small capital), «Edwin Barnes.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); running head «DEATH AND RESURRECTION.»; printed vertically in the right margin beside the music, reading downward: «Copyrighted 1886» (system 1; the upper half of the letters is cut off by the edge of the scan — see uncertainties.md) and «by Edwin Barnes.» (system 2). No reference line (the hymn has its own tune). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, in a condensed bold type, one system per half-stanza, with «1.» before «Dust». Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in two columns below the music; «Horatius Bonar.» in italics after stanza 3. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» («kindred !», «own !», «rendered ;», «tomb !», «head ;», «around !», «brow ;»); it is closed up here. «Ever-faithful» is printed with a hyphen inside the word (interlinear «Ev - er-faith - ful»); «unrifled» as one word («un - rifled»). In stanza 3 the word «weary» is printed heavier than its neighbours (ink), not in another type. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. Lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each stanza are indented in the print.