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Recording from the 2009 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singing Convention.
www.wmshc.org

Images from the 1860 edition of the Sacred Harp, available online from the Library of Congress.

From www.FaSoLa.org:

Tune: A. C. Clark, 1839
Words: Isaac Watts, 1709
Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)

Hark! from the tombs of doleful sound,
Mine ears, attend the cry,
Ye living men, come view the ground,
Where you must shortly lie.

Princes, this clay must be your bed,
In spite of all your towrs;
The tall, the wise, the revrend head,
Must lie as low as ours.

Great God! Is this our certain doom?
And are we still secure?
Still walking downward to the tomb,
And yet prepared no more!