Page 231
CHRISTIAN
SONG.
"Write,
Blessed
are
the
dead
which
die
in
the
Lord."
Rev.
14:13.
Key
of
D
Minor.
Alto
by
S.
M.
Denson,
1911.
Mine
eyes
are
now
clos-ing
to
rest,
My
bod
-
y
must
soon
be
re-mov'd,
And
mould'ring,
lie
bu-ried
in
dust,
No
more
to
be
envied
Mine
eyes
are
now
clos-ing
to
rest,
My
bod
-
y
must
soon
be
re-mov'd,
And
mould'ring,
lie
bu-ried
in
dust,
No
more
to
be
envied
or
Iov'd,
No
more
to
be
en-vied
or
lov'd.
Ah!
what
is
this
drawing
my
breath,
And
steal
-
ing
my
sen
-
ses
a-way?
Soft
and
slow.
lov'd,
No
more
to
be
en-vied
or
lov'd.
Ah!
what
is
this
drawing
my
breath,
And
steal
-
ing
my
sen
-
ses
a-way?
This
tune
is
on
the
anthem
order.
It
appears
in
the
Southern
Harmony
by
William
Walker,
1835,
page
129,
and
Missouri
Harmony
by
Carden,
1827-1837,
page
124-5,
and
in
the
Christian
Harmony
by
the
same
author
in
1866,
page
380
and
381
in
the
Sacred
Harp
by
White
&
King
in
1844
up
to
1869.
None
of
these
books
account
for
the
composer
of
the
music.
It
is
highly
probable
that
it
is
an
old
melod>
of
earlier
date
than
the
above
named
books
we
have
examined.