The Hymnal and Order of Service ‎#598

598. Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep

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

2 Asleep in Jesus! O how sweet,
To be for such a slumber meet!
With holy confidence to sing
That death has lost its venomed sting!

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

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

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep
• Title: Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep
• Author: Margaret (MacKay) Mackay (1832, a.)
• Meter: L. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1937
• Topic: Last Things: Death and Burial; Trinity, Twenty-fourth Sunday

Tune Information

• Name: BRESLAU
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: A Major
• Source: Hymnodus Sacer, Leipzig, 1625.