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Text:Rest for the toiling hand
Author:Horatius Bonar
Tune:SHAWMUT
Arranger:Lowell Mason

946. Rest for the toiling hand

1 Rest for the toiling hand,
Rest for the anxious brow,
Rest for the weary, way-worn feet,
Rest from all labor now.

2 Rest for the fevered brain,
Rest for the throbbing eye;
Thro' these parched lips of thine no more
Shall pass the moan or sigh.

3 Soon shall the trump of God
Give out the welcome sound
That shakes thy silent chamber walls,
And breaks the turf-sealed ground.

4 Ye dwellers in the dust.
Awake! come forth and sing;
Sharp has your frost of winter been,
But bright shall be your spring.

5 'Twas sown in weakness here,
'Twill then be raised in power;
That which was sown an earthly seed,
Shall rise a heavenly flower!

Text Information
First Line: Rest for the toiling hand
Author: Horatius Bonar
Publication Date: 1886
Topic: Death and Resurrection
Tune Information
Name: SHAWMUT
Arranger: Lowell Mason
Meter: S. M.
Key: D Major
Notes: Alternate tunes: #236 or 453.



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