Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Go to thy rest fair child
Topic: Present and Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune: Bankoke
Hymn Number: 709
Page Number: 258, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGo to thy rest, fair child!
Go to thy dream-less bed;
While yet so gen-tle, un-de-filed,
With blessings on thy head.
Fresh roses in thy hand,
Buds on thy pillow laid,
Haste from this dark and fearful land,
Where flowers so quickly fade.
Before thy heart had learned,
In waywardness to stray;
Before thy feet had ever turned
The dark and downward way;
Ere sin had seared the breast,
Or sorrow woke the tear;
Rise to thy throne of changeless rest,
In yon celestial sphere.
Because thy smile was fair,
Thy lip and eye so bright,
Because thy loving cradle care
Was such a dear delight;
Shall love, with weak embrace,
Thy upward wing detain?
No! gentle angel, seek thy place
Amid the cherub train.