Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Daniel 12:2
Words: James Montgomery, Original Hymns (London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1853), number 226, alt. The Living and the Dead.
Music: Beloit Karl G. Reissiger (1798–1859) (🔊 
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Where are the dead? In Heaven or hell,
Their disembodied spirits dwell;
Their buried forms in bonds of clay,
Reserved until the judgment day.
Who were the dead? The sons of time
In every age, and state, and clime;
Renowned, dishonored, or forgot,
The place that knew them, knows them not.
Where are the living? On the ground,
Where prayer is heard, and mercy found;
Where, in the period of a span,
The mortal makes th’immortal man.
Who are the living? They whose breath
Draws every moment nigh to death;
Of bliss or woe th’eternal heirs;
O what an awful choice is theirs!
Then timely warned, may we begin
To follow Christ, and flee from sin,
And daily grow in Him our Head,
Lord of the living and the dead.