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Hymn: In the grave distress and sorrow (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: In the grave distress and sorrow

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: Swan

Meter: 8s and 7s

Tune: Rome

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 152, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

In the grave, distress and sorrow

Pain no more the troubled breast;

There the wicked cease from troubling,

And the weary are at rest.

There, the pris'ners, freed from bondage,

Rest secure from all their dread;

And the voice of proud oppression,

By the poor no more is heard.