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What Is This Thing Man Calls Death?

Text: Gordon B. Hinckley Music: Janice Kapp Perry


Gordon B. Hinckley and Janice Kapp Perry, "What Is This Thing Man Calls Death?," Ensign, Feb 2010, 39

1. What is this thing that men call death
This quiet passign in the night?
'Tis not the end but genesis
Of better worlds and greater light.

2. O God, touch Thou my aching heart
And calm my troubled, haunting fears.
Let hope and faith, transcendent, pure,
Give strength and peace beyond my tears.

3. There is no death, but only change,
With recompense for vict'ry won.
The gift of Him who loved all men,
The Son of God, the Holy One.

Copyright © 2007 by Gordon B. Hinckley and Janice Kapp Perry. All rights reserved. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial home and church use.^ Back to top

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