507a. Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep

1 Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep!
From which none ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.

2 Asleep in Jesus! O how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet;
With holy confidence to sing
That death hath lost his venomed sting.

3 Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest,
Whose waking is supremely blest;
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
That manifests the Saviour's power.

4 Asleep in Jesus! O, for me
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie,
Waiting the summons from on high.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep
Author: Margaret Mackay (1832)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1917
Topic: The Life Everlasting: Death
Tune Information
Name: BRESLAU
Meter: L. M.
Key: A Major
Source: Melody in As Hymnodus Sacer, Leipzig, 1625



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