Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Not for the pious dead we weep
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Barbauld
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1059
Page Number: 626, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNot for the pious dead we weep;
Their sorrows now are o'er;
The sea is calm, the tempest past,
On that eternal shore.
Their peace is sealed, their rest is sure,
Within that better home;
Awhile we weep and linger here,
Then follow to the tomb.