Verse 1
Hark! A voice divides the sky!
Happy are the faithful dead,
In the Lord who sweetly die,
They from all their toils are freed.
Them the Spirit hath declar’d
Blest, unutterably blest,
Jesus is their great reward,
Jesus is their endless rest.

Verse 2
Follow’d by their works they go
Where their head had gone before,
Reconcil’d by grace below;
Grace had open’d mercy’s door:
Justified thro’ faith alone,
Here they knew their sins forgiven,
Here they laid their burden down
Hallow’d, and made fit for heaven.

Verse 3
Who can now lament the lot
Of a saint in Christ deceas’d:
Let the world who know us not
Call us hopeless and unbless’d:
When from flesh the spirit freed
Hastens homeward to return,
Mortals cry “A man is dead!”
Angels sing “A child is born!”

Verse 4
Born into the world above
They our happy brother greet,
Bear him to the throne of love,
Place him at the Saviour’s feet:
Jesus smiles, and says “Well done,
Good and faithful servant thou,
Enter, and receive thy crown,
Reign with me triumphant now.”

Verse 5
Angels catch th’ approving sound,
Bow, and bless the just award,
Hail the heir with glory crown’d
Now rejoicing with his Lord:
Fuller joys ordain’d to know,
Waiting for the general doom,
When th’ archangel’s trump shall blow
“Rise ye dead, to judgment come.”