I’ll smooth it with hope, and I’ll cheer it with song.
The tune is related to ‘[Be Gone Unbelief]’, in this collection, and to the worldly tunes listed under that song. Negro adoptions of the tune are Marsh, pp. 144 and 173, and SS 33.
No. 74
[TO DIE NO MORE], GOS 363
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
My heav’nly home is bright and fair,
No pain nor death can enter there;
Its glitt’ring tow’rs the sun outshine,
I hope that mansion shall be mine.
Chorus