Text:So Rest-My Rest!
Author:Salomo Franck
Translator (from German): Richard Massie
Tune:O TRAURIGKEIT
Composer:Anonymous
Media:MIDI file

6232. So Rest-My Rest!

1. So rest–my Rest!
Thou ever blest!
Thy grave with sinners making,
By Thy precious death, from sin
My dead soul awaking!

2. Here hast Thou lain,
After much pain,
Life of my life, reposing!
Round Thee now a rock-hewn grave,
Rock of Ages, closing.

3. Breath of all breath!
I know from death
Thou wilt my soul awaken!
Wherefore should I dread the grave,
Or my faith be shaken?

4. To me the tomb
Is but a room,
Where I lie down with Jesus!
Who by death hath conquered death,
Safely there receives us!

5. The body dies
(Naught else) and lies
In dust, until victorious
From the grave, it shall arise
Beautiful and glorious!

6. Meantime I will,
My Jesus, still
Deep in my bosom lay Thee,
Musing on Thy death; in death
Be with me, I pray Thee!

Text Information
First Line: So rest-my Rest
Title: So Rest-My Rest!
German Title: So ruhest du, o meine Ruh
Author: Salomo Franck (1685)
Translator (from German): Richard Massie
Meter: 44.776
Language: English
Source: Translation in Mercer's Church Psalter and Hymn Book, 1857, number 93
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: O TRAURIGKEIT
Composer: Anonymous (1628)
Meter: 44.776
Incipit: 53127 11755 56542
Key: f minor
Source: (Mainz, Ger­ma­ny: 1628)
Copyright: Public Domain



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