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29b Tribulation
Tune:
Patterson’s Church Music
, 1813
Words:
Isaac Watts
, 1709
Meter:
Common Meter (8,6,8,6)
Death,
’tis
a
melancholy
day
To
those
who
have
no
God,
When
the
poor
soul
is
forced
away,
To
seek
her
last
abode.
In
vain
to
heav’n
she
lifts
her
eyes,
For
guilt,
a
heavy
chain,
Still
drags
her
downward
from
the
skies
To
darkness,
fire,
and
pain.