In wild dismay the guards around
Fall to the ground and sink away.
Lewis Edson's “Lenox” (1782) is an old favorite among its musical interpreters.
“O SHORT WAS HIS SLUMBER.”
This hymn for the song-service of the Ruggles St. Church, Boston, was written by Rev. Theron Brown.
O short was His slumber; He woke from the dust;
The Saviour death's chain could not hold;
And short, since He rose, is the sleep of the just;
They shall wake, and His glory behold.
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