Why have we life? If not to gain

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Like sense­less brutes, to know Him not!

Why have we life? If not to gain

Immortal life, ’tis worse than vain;

What Are We For?

Lyricist: Anonymous
Composer: Sydney Harkey, 1885
Hymn 1

...Like sense­less brutes, to know Him not!

Why have we life? If not to gain

Immortal life, ’tis worse than vain;...

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Like sense­less brutes, to know Him not!

Why have we life? If not to gain

Immortal life, ’tis worse than vain;

What Are We For?

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