Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

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512 The Spirit Shall Return

Words: Ecclesiastes 12:2, 6, 7

Music: J. E. Kitchens, 1959

Meter: No Meter (Irregular or Prose)

Copyright: 1960 Sacred Harp Publishing Company

When the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars
Be not darkened, or the clouds return after the rain, or the silver cord be loosed,
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was,
And the spirit shall return unto God, who gave it.