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Hymn: O where shall rest be found (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: O where shall rest be found

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: <no first name given> Montgomery

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1065

Page Number: 629, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O where shall rest be found-

Rest for the weary soul?

'T were vain the ocean-depths to sound,

Or pierce to either pole.



The world can never give

The bliss for which we sigh:

'T is not the whole of life to live,

Nor all of death to die.



Beyond this vale of tears

There is a life above,

Unmeasur'd by the flight of years;

And all that life is love.



There is a death whose pang

Outlasts the fleeting breath:

O what eternal horrors hang

Around the second death!



Lord God of truth and grace,

Teach us that death to shun,

Lest we be banish'd from thy face,

And evermore undone.