Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

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181 Exit

Words: Isaac Watts, 1719

Music: P. Sherman, 1808

Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8)

Death, like an overflowing stream,
Sweeps us away; our life’s a dream,
An empty tale, a morning flow’r,
Cut down and withered in an hour.

Our age to sev’nty years is set;
How short the time! how frail the state!
And if to eighty we arrive,
We rather sigh and groan than live.