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Hymn: Should sorrow o'er thy brow (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: Should sorrow o'er thy brow

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: R Paige

Composer: German

Meter: 6s eight lines

Tune: Rest

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 228, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Should sorrow o'er thy brow

Its darkened shadow fling,

And hopes that cheer thee now

Die in their early spring;

Should pleasure at its birth

Fade like the hues of even,

Turn them away from earth,

There's rest for thee in heaven.



If ever life should seem 

To thee a toilsome way,

And gladness cease to beam

Upon its clouded day;

If, like the weary dove,

O'er shoreless ocean driven,

Raise then thine eyes above,

There's rest for thee in heaven.



If brightly shining flowers

Along thy pathway bloom,

And gaily fleet the hours,

Unstained by earthly gloom;

Still, let not ev'ry thought

To this poor world be given,

And never be forgot,

There's rest for thee in heaven.