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<h2>BRIEF LIFE IS HERE OUR PORTION</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.” Hebrews 13:14</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_n_e_neale_jm.jpg" alt="John Mason Neale (1818-1866)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="141.333333333333" height="201.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_e_bernard_m.html" target="_blank">Bernard of Morlaix</a>,
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12th Century (<em>Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus</em>); translated from Latin to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_n_e_neale_jm.html" target="_blank">John Mason Neale</a>, <em>Rhythm of Bernard of Morlaix, Monk of Cluny</em>, 1858.
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The last stanza is shared with <a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_f_o_fortheeo.html">For Thee, O Dear, Dear, Country</a>.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “St. Alphege,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_g_a_gauntlett_hj.html" target="_blank">Henry John Gauntlett</a>, 1852 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stalpheg.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Hic Breve Vivitur,” A. Pettet, circa 1815 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_h_hicbreve.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Brief life is here our portion;<br>
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Brief sorrow, short lived care;<br>
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The life that knows no ending,<br>
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The tearless life, is there.</p>
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<p>O happy retribution!<br>
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Short toil, eternal rest;<br>
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For mortals and for sinners<br>
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A mansion with the blest!</p>
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<p>There grief is turned to pleasure;<br>
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Such pleasure as below<br>
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No human voice can utter,<br>
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No human heart can know.</p>
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<p>And after fleshly weakness,<br>
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And after this world’s night,<br>
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And after storm and whirlwind,<br>
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Are calm, and joy, and light.</p>
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<p>And now we fight the battle,<br>
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But then shall wear the crown<br>
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Of full and everlasting<br>
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And passionless renown.</p>
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<p>And He, Whom now we trust in,<br>
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Shall then be seen and known;<br>
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And they that know and see Him<br>
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Shall have Him for their own.</p>
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<p>And now we watch and struggle,<br>
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And now we live in hope,<br>
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And Zion in her anguish<br>
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With Babylon must cope.</p>
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<p>But there is David’s fountain,<br>
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And life in fullest glow;<br>
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And there the light is golden,<br>
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And milk and honey flow.</p>
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<p>The morning shall awaken,<br>
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The shadows flee away,<br>
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And each true hearted servant<br>
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Shall shine as doth the day.</p>
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<p>For God, our King and Portion,<br>
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In fullness of His grace,<br>
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We than shall see forever,<br>
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And worship face to face.</p>
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<p>O sweet and blessèd country,<br>
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The home of God’s elect!<br>
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O sweet and blessèd country,<br>
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That eager hearts expect!</p>
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<p>Jesu, in mercy bring us,<br>
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To that dear land of rest;<br>
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Who art, with God the Father,<br>
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And Spirit, ever blest.</p>
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