Why should we start and fear to die
L. M.
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Why should we start and fear to die?What timorous worms we mortals are!Death is the gate of endless joy,And yet we dread to enter there.
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The pains, the groans, and dying strife,Fright our approaching souls away;Still shrink we back again to life,Fond of our prison and our clay.
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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.
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Jesus can make a dying bedFeel soft as downy pillows are,While on his breast I lean my head,And breathe my life out sweetly there.