Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: O where shall rest be found
Topic: Death/Second Death
Writer: J Montgomery
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune: Vigil
Hymn Number: 449
Page Number: 154, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO WHERE shall rest be found?
Rest for the weary soul?
'Twere vain the ocean depths to sound,
Or pierce to either pole.
The world can never give
The bliss for which we sigh;
'Tis 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 etrnal 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.