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Nos. 22 & 23: SOLO and CHORUS

"Said I not unto Thee...The Grave Cannot Praise Thee"

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Baritone Solo.
	Said I not unto thee that if thou wouldst believe Thou shouldst see the glory of God! Thy dead men shall live, Together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, For thy dew is as the dew of herbs, And the earth, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Chorus.
	The grave cannot praise thee, Death cannot celebrate thee, They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Sopranos.		Altos.		Tenors.		Basses.
			The living, the living
	He shall praise thee,		shall praise thee,		He shall praise thee,		He shall praise thee,
			The living, the living
	He shall praise thee!		shall praise thee!		He shall praise thee!		He shall praise thee!
	The father to the children shall make known
	thy truth,		The father
			to the
	shall make known		children shall make known
	thy truth,		thy truth,		The father
					to the
	make known		shall make known		children shall make known
	thy truth,		thy truth,		thy truth,		The living, the living,
	He shall praise thee,		He shall praise thee,		He shall praise thee,
							The living, the living,
	He shall praise thee!		He shall praise thee!		He shall praise thee!

All.
	The father to the children shall make known thy truth. The living, the living, the living, he shall praise thee, He shall praise thee, shall praise thee.

Sopranos.		Altos.		Tenors.		Basses.
							The grave cannot praise
			The grave cannot praise
	The grave cannot praise
			thee,		The grave cannot praise		thee,
							The grave cannot
	thee,
			The				praise
			grave cannot		thee,
	The grave cannot		praise
	praise		thee,		The grave cannot praise
	thee
			The
			grave cannot		thee,
			praise				The grave cannot
	The grave cannot						praise
	praise		the, the grave		The grave cannot praise
	thee, the grave		cannot praise		thee, the grave		thee, the grave

	the grave cannot		thee, the grave cannot		cannot praise thee,		cannot
	praise thee.		praise thee.		cannot praise thee.		praise thee.
							Death cannot celebrate
			Death cannot celebrate				thee, They that
			thee.		Death cannot		go down
					celebrate		into the
	Death cannot				thee,		pit cannot
	celebrate thee,				They that go down		hope for thy
	They that				into the		truth,
	go down into the		Death cannot celebrate		pit cannot hope
	pit cannot		thee,		for thy
	celebrate thee.		celebrate thee.		truth.
							The grave cannot
					The grave cannot		praise thee,
			The grave cannot		praise thee,		Death cannot
	The grave cannot		praise		Death cannot		celebrate thee,
	praise thee,		thee, the grave cannot		celebrate
	Death cannot		praise thee,		thee,		The grave cannot
	celebrate thee,		praise thee,		The grave cannot		praise thee,
			The grave cannot		praise thee,		Death
	The grave cannot		praise thee,		Death cannot		cannot
	praise thee.		The grave cannot praise.		celebrate thee,		celebrate thee,

All.
	They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth, thy truth.

Sopranos.		Altos.		Tenors.		Basses.
			The living, the living
	He shall praise thee,		shall praise thee,		He shall praise thee,		He shall praise thee,
			The living, the living
	He shall praise thee!		shall praise thee!		He shall praise thee!		He shall praise thee!
	The father to the children shall make known thy truth,

All.
	The father to the children shall make known thy truth,

Sopranos.		Altos.		Tenors.		Basses.
			thy truth.		The father		The father
	Death cannot				to the		to the
	celebrate thee,		Death cannot		children		children
	they that go down		celebrate thee,		shall		shall
	into the pit cannot		they that go		make		make
	hope for thy		down to the		known,		known,
	truth, cannot hope		pit		make known,		shall
	for		cannot hope for		shall make known		make known
	thy truth.		thy truth.		thy truth.		thy truth.

All.
	The living, the living, he shall praise thee, The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

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