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T:Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death
S:Digital Tradition, lovlyapp
N:Written ten years before the Reverend George Whitfield's death, to be sung at his own funeral.
B:From Our Singing Country, Lomax
D:Recorded by Hally Wood
Z:dt:lovlyapp
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Q:1/4=100
W:Oh, lovely appearance of death,
W:What sight upon earth is so fair?
W:Not all the gay pageants that breathe
W:Can with a dead body compare.
W:In solemn delight I survey
W:A corpse when the spirit is fled
W:In love with the beautiful clay,
W:And longing to lie in its stead.
W:
W:Its languishing pain is at rest,
W:Its aching and aching are o'er;
W:The quiet immovable breast
W:Is pained by affliction no more.
W:The heart it no longer receives
W:Of trouble and torturing pain;
W:It ceases to flutter and beat,
W:It never shall flutter again.
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