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Hymn: There is an hour of peaceful rest (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: There is an hour of peaceful rest

Topic: Present and Future/Heaven

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: N Gould

Meter: CM

Tune: Woodland

Hymn Number: 756

Page Number: 278, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

There is an hour of peaceful rest,

To mourning wanderers given;

There is a tear for souls distressed,

A balm for ev-ery wounded breast;

'T is found above-in heaven.



There is a home for weary souls,

By sins and sorrows driven;

When tossed on life's tempestuous shoals,

Where storms arise and ocean rolls,

And all is dear-but heaven.



There faith lifts up the tearless eye,

The heart with anguish riven;

It views the tempest passing by,

Sees evening shadows quickly fly,

And all serene-in heaven.



There fragrant flowers immortal bloom,

And joys supreme are given;

There rays divine disperse the gloom;

Beyond the dark and narrow tomb

Appears the dawn-of heaven.