Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Go to thy rest fair child
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1069
Page Number: 632, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGo to thy rest, fair child!
Go to thy dreamless bed,
While yet so gentle, undefiled
With blessings on thy head.
Fresh roses in thy hand,
Buds on thy pillow laid,
Haste from this dark and fearful land,
Where flowers so quickly fade.
Before thy heart had learned
In waywardness to stray;
Before thy feet had ever turned
The dark and downward way;
Ere sin had seared the breast,
Or sorrow woke the tear;
Rise to thy throne of changeless rest,
In yon celestial sphere!
Because thy smile was fair,
Thy lip and eye so bright,
Because thy loving cradle care
Was such a dear delight;
Shall love, with weak embrace,
Thy upward wing detain?
No! gentle angel, seek thy place
Amid the cherub train.