What! Is This The Only Rest?

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What! Is this the only rest

Author: Thomas T. Lynch
Tune: HEINLEIN
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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.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13486

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Author: Thomas T. Lynch

Lynch, Thomas Toke, was born at Dunmow, Essex, July 5, 1818, and educated at a school at Islington, in which he was afterwards an usher. For a few months he was a student at the Highbury Independent College; but withdrew, partly on account of failing health, and partly because his spirit was too free to submit to the routine of College life. From 1847 to 1849 he was Minister of a small charge at Highgate, and from 1849 to 1852 of a congregation in Mortimer Street, which subsequently migrated to Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square. From 1856 to 1859 he was laid aside by illness. In 1860 he resumed his ministry with his old congregation, in a room in Gower Street, where he remained until the opening of his new place of worship, in 1862, (Morningto… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	What! Is this the only rest
Title:	What! Is This The Only Rest?
Author:	Thomas T. Lynch
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Source:	The Rivulet (3rd ed, enl.) (London: Longmans, Green, Readyer & Dyer, 1868)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

HEINLEIN

AUS DER TIEFE (also called HEINLEIN) was published in the Nürnbergisches Gesang-Buch (1676-77) as a setting for Christoph Schwamlein's text based on Psalm 130 "Aus der Tiefe rufe ich" ("Out of the Depths I Cry"). In that songbook the tune was attributed to "M. H.," initials that are generally acce…

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