57a. Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!

1 Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!
From which none ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.

2 Asleep in Jesus! O how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet!
With holy confidence to sing
That death hath lost its painful sting!

3 Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest!
Whose waking is supremely blest;
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
That manifests the Saviour's power.

4 Asleep in Jesus! O for me
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie,
And wait the summons from on high.

Text Information
First Line: Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!
Meter: L. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1898
Notes: Margaret Mackay, 1832.
Tune Information
Name: JESUS MY LIFE
Meter: L. M.
Key: A♭ Major
Source: Anon., 1898



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