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Free from slumber, free from care

Free from slumber, free from care

Tune: MORNING SONG (Wakefield)
Published in 3 hymnals


Representative Text

1 Free from slumber, free from care,
Free from thoughts of sadness;
Let us greet the morning air
With a song of gladness.

2 While the music of the grove
On the ear is stealing,
Thoughts of friendship and of love
Waken tender feeling.

3 Lo the drops of pearly dew
Upward are ascending,
And the flowers with golden hue
On the stalk are bending.

4 Fragrance fills the gentle breeze,
Now incessant blowing;
While beneath the forest trees
Gentle rills are flowing.

5 In the pastures fresh and green,
Flocks and herds are straying:
Sol, without a cloud is seen,
Light and warmth conveying.

6 See all nature join in praise--
Earth, and air, and ocean!
Upward then to heaven we'll raise
Songs of true devotion.

Source: The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #202

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Text Information

First Line: Free from slumber, free from care
Copyright: Public Domain
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Juvenile Songs #28

Juvenile Songs #28

Mother's Nursery Songs. New ed. #d16

Mother's Nursery Songs. New ed. #d16
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The Minstrel of Zion #202

The Minstrel of Zion #202
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