Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: O where shall rest be found
Topic: Christian/Decline of Life
Writer: J Montgomery
Composer: I Woodbury
Meter: SM
Tune: Ozrem
Hymn Number: 402
Page Number: 131, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO WHERE shall rest be found-
Rest for the weary soul?
'Twere vain the ocean depths to sound,
Or pierce to either pole.
The world can never give
The bliss for which we sigh;
'Tis not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.
Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.
There is a death, whose pang
Outlasts the fleeting breath;
O what eternal horrors hang
Around the second death?
Lord God of truth and grace,
Teach us that death to shun,
Lest we be banished from thy face,
And evermore undone.