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Hymn score of: I go to life, and not to death - I go to Life (Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

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I go to life, and not to death - I go to Life
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

I go to Life.

1. I go to life, and not to death,
  from darkness to life's native sky;
I go from sickness and from pain
  to health and immortality.
Let our farewell then be tearless,
  since I bid farewell to tears;
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2. I go from poverty to wealth,
  from rags to raiment angel-fair,
from the pale leanness of this flesh
  to beauty such as saints shall wear.
Let our farewell then be tearless,
  since I bid farewell to tears;
write this day of my departure
  festive in your coming years.

3. I go from chains to liberty;
  these fetters will be broken soon;
forth over Eden's fragrant fields
  I walk beneath a glorious noon.
Let our farewell then be tearless,
  since I bid farewell to tears;
write this day of my departure
  festive in your coming years.

4. For toil there comes the crownèd rest;
  instead of burdens, eagle's wings;
and I, even I, this life-long thirst
  shall quench at everlasting springs.
Let our farewell then be tearless,
  since I bid farewell to tears;
write this day of my departure
  festive in your coming years.

5. God lives! Who says that I must die?
  I cannot, while Jehovah lives!
Christ lives! I cannot die, but live;
  he life to me for ever gives.
Let our farewell then be tearless,
  since I bid farewell to tears;
write this day of my departure
  festive in your coming years.

Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope II, 1872, 79-80.

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