And Am I Born To Die? (Idumea/Amazing Grace) - Casey Rule

"Am I Born to Die?" (Idumea/Amazing Grace)
composed and directed by Casey Rule
performed by The Lehigh University Choir
"Voices of Mystery", March 2012

Download the sheetmusic at: http://notenova.com/catalog/work/and-am-i-born-to-die/

Music:
Traditional American Folk Hymns from "The Sacred Harp"
"Idumea" - Ananias Davisson, 1816
"New Britain" - Columbian Harmony, 1829
for SSAATTBB choir, cello, and handbells

Texts:
"And Am I Born to Die" - Charles Wesley, 1763
"Amazing Grace" - John Newton, 1779

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And am I born to die?
To lay this body down?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown,

A land of deepest shade,
Unpierced by human thought,
The dreary regions of the dead,
Where all things are forgot?

Soon as from earth I go,
What will become of me?
Eternal happiness or woe
Must then my portion be:

Waked by the trumpet's sound,
I from my grave shall rise,
And see the Judge, with glory crowned,
And see the flaming skies!

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.

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