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Text:What! Is This The Only Rest?
Author:Thomas T. Lynch
Tune:HEINLEIN
Media:MIDI file

13486. What! Is This The Only Rest?

1 What! Is this the only rest
Earth affords her heavenly guest?
For the Child she had no room,
To the Man she gives—a tomb.

2 O, Thou weary Man of Love,
Here is stone around, above;
’Tis the dark world’s stony heart,
Enter, and fulfill Thy part.

3 Tender linen swathes Thee round,
And a napkin soft is bound
O’er Thy features sorrow-worn,
And Thy brow so sharply torn.

4 Such a day deserves its night,
O, sleep on and gather might;
When it pleases Thee to wake,
Tomb and world alike shall shake.

Text Information
First Line: What! Is this the only rest
Title: What! Is This The Only Rest?
Author: Thomas T. Lynch
Meter: 77.77
Language: English
Source: The Rivulet (3rd ed, enl.) (London: Longmans, Green, Readyer & Dyer, 1868)
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: CANTERBURY by Orlando Gibbons, GENTLE JESUS by Martin F. Shaw, GLAD DAY by William W. Gilchrist
Tune Information
Name: HEINLEIN
Meter: 77.77
Key: d minor or modal
Source: Nürnbergisches Gesangbuch, 1676
Copyright: Public Domain



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