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
LyicsO 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.