The river of song

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O the sleep of just a moment

Author: Fanny Crosby
Tune: [O the sleep of just a moment]
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 O the sleep of just a moment,
When the spirit sinks away!
Then the waking, blissful waking,
In a world of endless day.

Refrain:
O the rapture, holy rapture,
There to stand with the bright, happy throng!
There the sacred springs of pleasure
With the streams of love unite,
In a pure flowing river of song.

2 We shall hear celestial music
O’er its bosom sweep along,
Like the voice of many waters;
Hark! the everlasting song. [Refrain]

3 In their numbers far excelling
All the countless orbs above,
They who swell the mighty chorus
In the spirit world of love. [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16706

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Author: Fanny Crosby

Pseudonymns: A.V., Mrs. A. E. Andrews, Mrs. E. A. Andrews, Mrs. E. L. Andrews, James L. Black, Henrietta E. Blair, Charles Bruce, Robert Bruce, Leah Carlton, Eleanor Craddock, Lyman G. Cuyler, D.H.W., Ella Dare, Ellen Dare, Mrs. Ellen Douglass, Lizzie Edwards. Miss Grace Elliot, Grace J. Frances, Victoria Frances, Jennie Garnett, Frank Gould, H. D. K., Frances Hope, Annie L. James, Martha J. Lankton [Langton], Grace Lindsey, Maud Marion, Sallie Martin, Wilson Meade, Alice Monteith, Martha C. Oliver, Mrs. N. D. Plume, Kate Smiley, Sallie Smith, J. L. Sterling, John Sterling, Julia Sterling, Anna C. Storey, Victoria Stuart, Ida Scott Taylor, Mary R. Tilden, Mrs. J. B. Thresher, Hope Tryaway, Grace Tureman, Carrie M. Wilson, W.H.D. Frances… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	O the sleep of just a moment
Title:	The river of song
Author:	Fanny Crosby
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O the rapture, holy rapture
Copyright:	Public Domain