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Text:Not our Rest
Author:Horatius Bonar
Tune:VESPER
Arranger:fr. Flotow

569. Not our Rest

1 This is not my place of resting,
Mine's a city yet to come;
Onward to it I am hasting
On to my eternal home.

2 In it all is light and glory;
O'er it shines a nightless day:
Every trace of sin's sad story,
All the curse, hath passed away.

3 There the Lamb, our Shepherd, leads us
By the streams of life along,
On the freshest pastures feeds us,
Turns our sighing into song.

4 Soon we pass this desert dreary,
Soon we bid farewell to pain;
Never more are sad or weary,
Never, never sin again!

Text Information
First Line: This is not my place of resting
Title: Not our Rest
Author: Horatius Bonar
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: The Rest of Heaven; Heaven
Tune Information
Name: VESPER
Arranger: fr. Flotow
Meter: 8s, 7s
Key: B♭ Major



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