A SLATE gravestone would suit me as well as a marble one — with just my name and age, and a verse of a hymn, and something to let people know that I lived an honest man and died a Christian.
We do have a victory hymn, a victory hymn that's inscribed on a stele that's a slab of stone — which was erected in the year 1204 BCE.
The first is a paraphrase of a 19th century hymn by the English poet William Cowper (“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform).
Our Pentecostal friend Janice Sjostrand sang a powerful hymn Mother had heard at my inaugural church service, Holy Ground.
It would be easy to accuse Mr DE Botton, who describes his new volume as "a hymn to the intelligence, peculiarity, beauty and horror of the modern workplace", of firing cheap shots.
The rousing hymn of the international workers' movement-freedom thundering against oppression, starvelings rising to end the age of cant-was felt not to fit the needs of the contemporary Soviet Union.
I can hear the hymn from the nearby church.
As the last notes of the hymn died away the widow ran to the coffin, cast herself upon it and sobbed hysterically.
Even the souvenir rose in the hymn-book was faded, but in the garden there were other rose trees and other snails.
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