Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition
111b To Die No More
Words: Isaac Watts, 1707
Music: Arr. Edmund Dumas, 1856. Alto S. M. Denson, 1911
Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8)
Why should we start and fear to die?
What tim’rous worms we mortals are!
Death is the gate of endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.
[chorus]
I’m going home to Christ above;
I’m going to the Christian’s rest,
To die no more, to die no more,
I’m going home to die no more.
Oh, 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.
What tim’rous worms we mortals are!
Death is the gate of endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.
[chorus]
I’m going home to Christ above;
I’m going to the Christian’s rest,
To die no more, to die no more,
I’m going home to die no more.
Oh, 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.