Death and Resurrection

Go to thy rest in peace

No. 954
Metre 6s & 8s.
Tune GO TO THY REST.
Words Anon.
Music Unknown.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 3/4
3 stanzas

Words

Go to thy rest in peace,And soft be thy repose;Thy toils are o'er, thy troubles cease,From earthly cares in sweet release,Thine eye-lids gently close.

Go to thy peaceful rest;For thee we need not weep,The righteous dead, by heaven blessed,No more by sin and sorrow pressed,Are hushed in quiet sleep.

Go to thy rest; and whileThy absence we deplore,One thought our sorrow shall beguile;For soon with a celestial smileWe'll meet to part no more.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «DEATH AND RESURRECTION.»; hymn number «954» (large), tune name «GO TO THY REST. 6s & 8s.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «UNKNOWN.» at the right in the composer slot (capitals and small capitals). No reference line is printed. Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «Go»: «1. Go to thy rest in peace, And soft be thy re - pose; Thy toils are o'er,» / «thy troubles cease, From earthly cares in sweet release, Thine eye-lids gently close,» / «From earth-ly cares in sweet release, Thine eye-lids gently close, gent - ly close.» — the music sings lines 4 and 5 twice and the last two words a third time, written out under the staves; the stanza below gives the five verse lines once, as a poem, with the final reading «close.» (under the music line 5 ends first with «close,»). Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in two columns below the music, numbered «2» and «3» without periods (written «2.» and «3.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); in the print line 1 is flush, lines 2 and 5 are indented deeply and lines 3–4 slightly (written here with the indentation of lines 2 and 5 only). «Anon.» in italics after stanza 3. The print sets a thin space before «;» («rest ;», «beguile ;»); it is closed up here; «We'll» is set with a hair space before the apostrophe and is written closed. «eye-lids» keeps the print's hyphen (it is printed «eye-lids» in both lines of the music, where the other two-note words — «troubles», «earthly», «release», «gently» — are printed whole). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.