I Sleep, but Love Still Waketh

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I sleep, but love still waketh

Author: Wilbur F. Tillett
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 I sleep, but love still waketh,
To turn the night to day;
No leave the heart e’er taketh:
Love cannot pass away.
However deep the sleeping
To loved ones may appear,
There is no need for weeping,
My heart, my love is here.

2 I sleep, but love still waketh,
And lo, the tender care
Of Him who never sleepeth
Is ’round us everywhere.
In waking or in sleeping,
No ill can e’er befall
Beneath His care and keeping
Who watches over all.

3 I sleep, but be not grieving
When for a time we part;
For though I go, I’m leaving
Behind my loving heart.
’Tis not a final rending
Of sacred bonds in twain;
For love there is no ending;
Some day we’ll meet again.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16361

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Author: Wilbur F. Tillett

Tillett, Wilbur Fisk, D.D. (Henderson, North Carolina, August 25, 1854--June 4, 1936). This eminent theologian, hymnologist, author, teacher, faithful minister of the gospel was member of four General Conferences of his church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and three times appointed to membership on its hymnal Commissions--1886, 1904, and 1930. Educated at Randolph-Macon College, Princeton, and Princeton Theological Seminary he was given honorary degrees by Randolph-Macon College, Wesleyan, Southwestern, and Northwestern Universities. After preaching two years at Danville, Virginia, 1880-1882, and acting as Chaplain and tutor in Theology at Vanderbilt University for a year, he was ordained in 1883. Spending the remainder of his lif… Go to person page >

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