Bible Songs — Funeral Occasions

He Giveth His Beloved Sleep

Sorrow and care may meet,

No. 1375
Tune HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP.
Words T. C. Tildesley.
Music Franz Abt. Arr.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 6/8
3 stanzas

Words

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[Solo or Quartette.]

Sorrow and care may meet,The tempest cloud may lower,The surge of sin may beatUpon earth's troubled shore;

Refrain.

God doth his own in safety keep;He giveth his beloved sleep,He giveth his beloved sleep.

The din of war may rollWith all its raging flight;Grief may oppress the soulThroughout the weary night;

In childhood's winsome page,In manhood's joyous bloom,In feebleness and age,In death's dark, gath'ring gloom;

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1375» (large, left), title «HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP.» centred (condensed capitals and small capitals). On the next line «T. C. TILDESLEY.» at the left (the words) and, centred, the epigraph «"For so he giveth his beloved sleep.—Ps. 127 : 2.» (the print has no closing quotation mark after «sleep.»; kept so). Under them «Slowly.» (italic) at the left, «[Solo or Quartette.]» centred, «FRANZ ABT. ARR.» at the right (the music; capitals and small capitals). No meter, no reference line. The three stanzas are interlinear, numbered «1.»–«3.» in the first system; the refrain («REFRAIN.» over the music) begins on the middle lyric line of the second system and fills the third system; it is given once, after stanza 1. Stanza 1 begins under the first full bar (no syllable under the pickup). Syllable hyphens are joined («rag - ing», «joy-ous», «fee - ble-ness», «Up - on», «safe - ty», «giv-eth», «be-lov - ed»); «Sorrow», «tempest», «lower», «surge», «childhood's», «winsome», «manhood's», «troubled», «Throughout», «weary», «gath'ring» are printed whole. The print's thin space before «;» is closed up; curly quotes and apostrophes are written straight.