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320 Funeral Anthem

Words: Revelation 14:13

Music: William Billings, 1778

Meter: No Meter (Irregular or Prose)

I heard a great voice from heav’n saying unto me,
Write from henceforth, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord:
Yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest
From their labors
And their works which do follow,
which do follow them,
Which do follow them.

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