Friday, November 2, 2007

Sooner Or Later

This being All Souls Day, here is a reminder of what awaits the souls of all, "Sooner Or Later", a miniscule hymn found in a United Church of Christ hymnal. The words are from poet Christina Rosetti, 1881. The tune is Dunfermline from the Scottish Psalter, 1615:


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Sooner or later:
Yet at last
The Jordan must be past.
Sooner or later:
Yet one day
We all must pass that way.
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When mysteries shall be revealed,
All secrets be unsealed:
Lord God of mercy
and of men,
Show mercy on us then.
AMEN
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