Happy 2011, song number 1: Plenary

The first of two New Years songs we've youtubed for you in celebration of New Year! Plenary, page 162 in the Sacred Harp, also known as "Hark From The Tomb", takes its melody from the Burns-ian folk song & lyrics from Isaac Watts.

Hark from the tomb a doleful sound;
My ears, attend the cry.
Ye living men, ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie,
Where you must shortly lie.
Ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.

Princes, this clay must be your bed
In spite of all your towers.
Ye tall, ye wise, ye tall, ye wise, a reverent head
Must lie as low as ours,
Must lie as low as ours.
Ye tall, ye wise, ye reverent head
Must lie as low as ours.

Great God, is this our certain doom,
Or are we yet secure?
Still walking down, still walking downward to the tomb,
And yet prepare no more,
And yet prepare no more.
Still walking downward to the tomb,
And yet prepare no more.