death march vs hymn

death march

noun
  • Synonym of dead march (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”) 

  • A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey. 

  • A project that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork, or whose participants feel it is destined to fail. 

hymn

noun
  • A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one. 

verb
  • To praise or extol in hymns. 

  • To sing a hymn. 

How often have the words death march and hymn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )