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Text:Rest for the Toiling Hand
Author:H. Bonar
Tune:BOYLSTON
Composer:L. Mason

940. Rest for the Toiling Hand

1. Rest for the toiling hand,
Rest for the anxious brow,
Rest for the weary, way-worn feet,
Rest from all labor now.

2. Soon shall the trump of God
Give out the welcome sound
That shakes thy silent chamber walls,
And breaks the turf-sealed ground.

3. 'Twas sown in weakness here,
'Twill then be raised in pow'r;
That which was sown as earthly seed,
Shall rise a heav'nly flow'r!

Text Information
First Line: Rest for the toiling hand
Title: Rest for the Toiling Hand
Author: H. Bonar
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Special Occasions: Funeral Hymns
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: BOYLSTON
Composer: L. Mason
Meter: S. M.
Key: C Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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