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All mortal vanities be gone

Account of Isaac Watts's hymn "All mortal vanities be gone," based on the vision of the Lamb in Revelation 5.

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"All mortal vanities be gone" is an eighteenth-century hymn by Isaac Watts based on Revelation 5:6-9, subtitled "A vision of the Lamb." Composed in nine four-line stanzas, it was published in Book I of his Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707, No. 25).

The hymn achieved limited use across both British and American hymnals during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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