“Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.”

— Isaac Watts

Hymn 63, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II.
Attributed from postum publications, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

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English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674–1748

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