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Text:Deut. 30:19
Author:James Montgomery
Tune:SHAWMUT
Composer:Lowell Mason

253. Deut. 30:19

1 Oh, where shall a rest be found--
Rest for the weary soul?
'Twere vain the ocean's depths to sound,
Or pierce to either pole.

2 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.

3 Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.

4 There is a death whose pang
Outlasts the fleeting breath:
Oh, what eternal horrors hang
Around the second death!

5 Lord God of truth and grace!
Teach us that death to sun;
Lest we be banished from thy face,
And evermore undone.

Text Information
First Line: Oh, where shall rest be found
Title: Deut. 30:19
Author: James Montgomery
Language: English
Publication Date: 1888
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Atonement: Necessary
Tune Information
Name: SHAWMUT
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: S. M.
Key: D Major



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