Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Go to thy rest fair child
Topic: Death/Of Children
Writer: <no first name given> Sigourney
Composer: F Rice
Meter: SM
Tune: Ellinwood
Hymn Number: 452
Page Number: 155, 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.
Before thy heart had learn'd
In waywardness to stray;
Before thy feet had ever turn'd
The dark and downward way;
Ere sin had sear'd the breast,
Or sorrow woke the tear;
Rise to thy home 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.