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Hymn: Return my soul and sweetly rest (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Return my soul and sweetly rest

Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven

Writer: <no first name given> Latrobe

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1122

Page Number: 666, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Return, my soul, and swetly rest

On thy almighty Father's breast;

The bounties of his grace adore,

And count his wondrous mercies o'er.



Thy mercy, Lord, preserved my breath,

And snatched my fainting soul from death;

Removed my sorrows, dried my tears,

And saved me from surrounding snares.



What shall I render to the Lord?

Or how his wondrous grace record?

To him my grateful voice I'll raise,

With just thanksgiving to his praise.



O Zion! in thy sacred courts,

Where glory dwells, and joy resorts,

To notes divine I'll tune the song,

And praise shall flow from every tongue.