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Hymn: Rest weary heart (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: Rest weary heart

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: A Fillmore

Meter: PM

Tune: Chant II

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 319, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Rest, weary heart,
From all thy silent griefs, and secret pains
Thy profitless regrets, and longings vain;
Wisdom and love have ordered all the past,
All shall be blessedness and light at last;
Cast off the cares that have so long opprest;
Rest, sweetly rest.


Rest, weary head,
Lie down to slumber in the peaceful tomb;
Light from above has broken through its gloom;
Here, in the place where once thy Savior lay,
Where he shall wake thee on a future day,
Like a tired child upon its mother's breast,
Rest, sweetly rest.


Rest, spirit free!
In the green pastures of the heavenly shore,
Where sin and sorrow can approach no more,
With all the flock by the Good Shepherd fed,
Beside the streams of life eternal led,
Forever with thy God and Savior blest,
Rest, sweetly rest.