The Hymnal: as authorized and approved by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1916 413a. Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!

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Text:	Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!
Author:	Margaret Mackay
Tune:	REST (BRADBURY)
Composer:	William B. Bradbury

Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!
From which none ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.

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Asleep in Jesus! O how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet;
With holy confidence to sing
That death hath lost its painful sting!

Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest!
Whose waking is supremely blest;
No fear, no woe shall dim that hour
That manifests the Savior's power.

Asleep in Jesus! O for me
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie,
Waiting the summons from on high.

Asleep in Jesus! far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But there is still a blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep.

Text Information
First Line:	Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!
Author:	Margaret Mackay (1832)
Meter:	L.M.
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1916
Topic:	Burial of the Dead

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