Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Go to thy rest fair child
Topic: Funerals
Writer: <no first name given> Sigourney
Composer: F Rice
Meter: SM
Tune: Ellinwood
Hymn Number: 410
Page Number: 133, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGO TO thy rest, fair child;
Go to thy dreamless bed,
While yet so gentle, undefiled,
With blessings on thy head.
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 home 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.