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Text:Asleep in Jesus
Author:Margaret Mackay
Tune:REST
Composer:William B. Bradbury

54. Asleep in Jesus

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 hath 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 Savior's pow'r.

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.

Text Information
First Line: Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep
Title: Asleep in Jesus
Author: Margaret Mackay (1832)
Meter: 88.88
Language: English
Publication Date: 1997
Scripture:
Topic: Funeral
Tune Information
Name: REST
Composer: William B. Bradbury (1843)
Meter: 88.88
Key: D Major



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