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VERMONT.
C.
M.
D.
"For
it
is
a
good
thing
that
the
heart
be
established
with
grace;
not
with
meats."-Heb.
13:9
Key
of
E
Minor.
In
vain
we
lav - ish
out
our
lives,
To
gath
-
er
emp
-
ty
wind;
The
choicest
blessings
earth
can
yield
Will
starve
a
hun
-
gry
mind.
In
vain
we
lav
-
ish
out
our
lives,
To
gath
-
er
emp
-
ty
wind;
The
choicest
blessings
earth
can
yield
Will
starve
a
hun - gry
mind.
Come,
and
the
Lord
shall
feed
our
souls
With
more
substantial
meat,
With
such
as
saints
in
glo
-
ry
love,
With
such
as
an
-
gels eat.
Come,
and
the
Lord
shall
feed
our
souls
With
more
substantial
meat,
With
such
as
saints
in
glo
-
ry
love,
With
such
as
an
-
gels
eat.
This
tune
is
among
the
older
melodies.
It
was
probably
printed
very
early
in
the
l8th
Century.
It
was
printed
in
the
"Missouri
Harmony"
1837,
by
Allen
D.
Carden,
Supplement
1827,
and
no
doubt
appears
in
earlier
editions
of
that
book.
It
was
printed
in
the
Sacred
Harp
by
White
and
King
in
1844
and
in
the
same
book
up
to
1869.
The
words
have
lost
the
name
of
their
author.
No
trace
of
them
can
be
found
outside
of
the
books
above
mentioned.
It
is
quite
a
favorite
with
a
num-
ber
of
the
older
singers.
It
has
some
pecular
minor
strains
in
it
we
find
in
no
other
tune.