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Hymn: Go to thy rest in peace (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Go to thy rest in peace

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

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

Composer:

Meter: 6s and 8s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1094

Page Number: 648, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Go to thy rest in peace,

And soft be thy repose;

Thy toils are o'er, thy troubles cease;

From earthly cares, in sweet release,

Thine eyelids gently close.



Go to thy peaceful rest;

For thee we need not weep,

Since thou art now among the blest-

No more by sin and sorrow pressed,

But hushed in quiet sleep.



Go to thy rest; and while

Thy absence we deplore,

One thought our sorrow shall beguile;

For soon, with a celestial smile,

We meet to part no more.