<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Mitrailleuse]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://mitrailleuse.net]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[J. Arthur Bloom]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://mitrailleuse.net/author/jarthurbloom/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Sacred Harp 47b: &#8216;Idumea&#8217;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/MfpI4X3-M68?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></span>
<p>From the 1982 Holly Springs Sacred Harp Convention, filmed by Lomax and crew, much of which can be found <a href="http://www.culturalequity.org/rc/videos/video-guide_sh.php">here</a>. The words are by Charles Wesley:</p>
<blockquote><p>And am I born to die? / To lay this body down!<br />
And must my trembling spirit fly / Into a world unknown?</p>
<p>A land of deepest shade, / Unpierced by human thought;<br />
The dreary regions of the dead, / Where all things are forgot!</p>
<p>Soon as from earth I go, / What will become of me?<br />
Eternal happiness or woe / Must then my portion be!</p>
<p>Waked by the trumpet sound, / I from my grave shall rise;<br />
And see the Judge with glory crowned, / And see the flaming skies!</p></blockquote>
<p>There are a lot of versions of this online, including from the &#8220;Cold Mountain&#8221; soundtrack, which somebody set to clips from Battlestar Galactica <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfL7Xf7KKCU">to pretty awesome effect</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98fVjc4MfXQ">The one from the 2012 Irish convention</a> is the loudest, but I already posted a video from it. Sufjan Stevens <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXr1SF0o60M">did a version</a> on one of his Christmas albums.</p>
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