Text: | Asleep In Jesus! Blessed Sleep |
Author: | Margaret Mackay |
Tune: | REST |
Composer: | William Batchelder Bradbury |
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 has lost his cruel sting.
3 Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest,
Whose waking is supremely blest;
No fear, no woe shall dim the hour
That manifests the Savior's pow'r.
4 Asleep in Jesus! O for me
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie,
The summons waiting from on high.
5 Asleep in Jesus! far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But there is still a blessed sleep
From which none ever wakes to weep.
Amen.
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First Line: | Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep! |
Title: | Asleep In Jesus! Blessed Sleep |
Author: | Margaret Mackay (1832) |
Meter: | L. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1930 |
Topic: | The Christian Life: Death and Burial |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | REST |
Composer: | William Batchelder Bradbury (1844) |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | D Major |