Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church ‎#507a

507a. Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep

1 Asleep in Jesus! blessèd 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 hath lost his 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,
Waiting the summons from on high.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Asleep in Jesus! blessèd sleep
• Author: Margaret Mackay (1832)
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1917
• Topic: The Life Everlasting: Death

Tune Information

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