Text: | How still and peaceful is the grave! |
Tune: | REST |
1 How still and peaceful is the grave!
where, life’s vain tumults past,
th’ appointed house, by Heav’n’s decree,
receives us all at last.
2 The wicked there from troubling cease;
their passions rage no more;
and there the weary pilgrim rests
from all the toils he bore.
3 There rest the pris’ners, now releas'd
from slav'ry’s sad abode;
no more they hear th’ oppressor’s voice,
or dread the tyrant’s rod.
4 There servants, masters, small and great,
partake the same repose;
and there, in peace, the ashes mix
of those who once were foes.
5 All, levell'd by the hand of Death,
lie sleeping in the tomb;
till God, in judgment calls the
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How still and peaceful is the grave! |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2004 |
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Tune Information | |
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Name: | REST |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Source: | The Hallelujah, edited by Lowell Mason, 1854 |