ELHB Hymn 540
Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep
Margaret Mackay (1832)
Hymn Text
540. Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep
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1 Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.
From which none ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.
2 Asleep in Jesus! Oh, how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet;
With holy confidence to sing
That death has lost his venomed sting.
To be for such a slumber meet;
With holy confidence to sing
That death has 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 Savior's power.
Whose waking is supremely blest;
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
That manifests the Savior's power.
Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #540