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[Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hammer Atchley Incipit: 55556 51131 21322 Used With Text: Sweetly Sleep

Author: Katharyn D. Bacon Meter: 7.8.7.8 D Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear Refrain First Line: Sweetly sleep until the dawn Lyrics: 1 Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear, Beneath the flowers, the sun and dew, As today we gather here In loving memory of you. Refrain: Sweetly sleep until the dawn Of that eternal, happy day, When, with every shadow gone, We shall abide in bliss for aye. 2 Sweetly sleep, and take your rest, For every burden now is borne, Safe upon your Savior’s breast, Dear friends, for you we cannot mourn. [Refrain] 3 Sweetly sleep, so free from care, You’ll wake, but ah! to sorrow not, For the joys of Heav’n you’ll share, O happy, happy is your lot! [Refrain] 4 Sweetly sleep, oh! sweetly sleep, Your toil is done, your sorrow o’er; Vigil o’er you angels keep, And blest are you forevermore! [Refrain] Used With Tune: TUALATIN Text Sources: Glad News No. 2 by George W. Bacon (Hudson, NC: Teachers' Music Publishing, 1918)

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Sweetly Sleep

Author: Katharyn D. Bacon Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #16142 Meter: 7.8.7.8 D First Line: Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear Refrain First Line: Sweetly sleep until the dawn Lyrics: 1 Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear, Beneath the flowers, the sun and dew, As today we gather here In loving memory of you. Refrain: Sweetly sleep until the dawn Of that eternal, happy day, When, with every shadow gone, We shall abide in bliss for aye. 2 Sweetly sleep, and take your rest, For every burden now is borne, Safe upon your Savior’s breast, Dear friends, for you we cannot mourn. [Refrain] 3 Sweetly sleep, so free from care, You’ll wake, but ah! to sorrow not, For the joys of Heav’n you’ll share, O happy, happy is your lot! [Refrain] 4 Sweetly sleep, oh! sweetly sleep, Your toil is done, your sorrow o’er; Vigil o’er you angels keep, And blest are you forevermore! [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: TUALATIN

Sweetly Sleep

Author: Katharyn Bacon Hymnal: Glad News No. 2 #115 (1918) First Line: Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear Refrain First Line: Sweetly sleep until the dawn Languages: English Tune Title: [Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear]

Sweetly Sleep

Author: Katharyn Bacon Hymnal: Truth and Hope #195 (1919) First Line: Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear Refrain First Line: Sweetly sleep until the dawn Languages: English Tune Title: [Sweetly sleep, oh! friends so dear]

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Katharyn Bacon

1884 - 1944 Author of "Sweetly Sleep" in Glad News No. 2 Katharyn Bacon was born in 1884 and lived in the hills of Tennessee. She liked books, flowers, garden and being close to nature. She was most likely married to George W. Bacon since a lot of her hymns appear in hymnals he edited. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)