Death and Resurrection

There is an hour of peaceful rest

No. 945
Metre P. M.
Tune PEACEFUL REST.
Words Anon.
Music Unknown.
Key C major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

There is an hour of peaceful rest,To mourning wanderers given;There is a joy for souls distressed,A balm for every wounded breast,'Tis found alone in heaven.

There is a home for weary soulsBy sin and sorrow driven,When tossed on life's tempestuous shoals,Where storms arise and ocean rolls,And all is drear but heaven.

There Faith lifts up her tearless eye,The heart no longer riven,And views the tempest passing by,The evening shadows quickly fly,And all serene in heaven.

There fragrant flowers immortal bloom,And joys supreme are given;There rays divine disperse the gloom;Beyond the dark and narrow tomb,Appears the dawn of heaven.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «DEATH AND RESURRECTION.»; hymn number «945» (large), tune name «PEACEFUL REST. P. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «UNKNOWN.» at the right in the composer slot (capitals and small capitals). No reference line. Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, in running type with «1.» before «There»: system 1 carries lines 1–2 and the beginning of line 3 («1. There is an hour of peace-ful rest, To mourning wanderers given; There is a joy for»), system 2 the end of line 3 and lines 4–5 («souls distressed, A balm for ev - ery wounded breast, 'Tis found a - lone in heaven.»); only «peace-ful», «ev - ery» and «a - lone» are printed with syllable hyphens, joined here. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in two columns below the music; stanza 3 begins in the left column (three lines) and ends at the top of the right column (two lines); «Anon.» in italics after stanza 4. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 There»); they are numbered «2.» here like stanza 1. Lines 2 and 5 of each stanza are indented in the print. Stanza 3, line 1 is printed «ThereFaith» without a word space; written «There Faith» (the capital F is the print's; precedent: words run together by tight setting are separated, HT 0084, HT 0095, HT 0311). The printer's thin space before «;» («given ;», «gloom ;») is closed up here. «'Tis» and «life's» are written with straight apostrophes. In stanza 4, line 5 the «a» of «dawn» is damaged in the print («dąwn»); read «dawn». Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.