Bible Songs — Funeral Occasions

She Sleeps Her Last Sleep

Sorrowful mourner, silently weep;

No. 1376
Tune SHE SLEEPS HER LAST SLEEP.
Words E. C. R.
Music E. C. Riggs.
Key A major
Singing key G major
Time 3/4
3 stanzas

Words

Sorrowful mourner, silently weep;Weep for thy loved one sleeps her last sleep.Gaze on the form where beauty once bloomed;Now in the dust it must be entombed.

Refrain.

Sorrowful mourner, silently weep;Weep for thy loved one sleeps her last sleep.

Bear her away, friends, to her last home;Peacefully lay her down in the tomb.Lightly, tread lightly, round the low bed;Sweetly now sleeps the beautiful dead.

Beautiful song-birds, sing round her grave;Gently ye pine-boughs, over her wave;Blow, ye soft breezes, sweet breath of spring;Musical rill, your requiem sing.

Last stanza.

Soon shall we meet her, weeping no more,Meet her upon yon beautiful shore.

* "He or "she," as desired.

From "Coronet," by per. Root & Cady.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1376» (large, left), title «SHE SLEEPS HER LAST SLEEP.» centred (condensed capitals and small capitals; the asterisk refers to the italic footnote at the foot of the page: « "He or "she," as desired.» — no closing quotation mark after «He»; kept so). Under the title the epigraph in two lines, «"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring / with him."—1 Thess. 4 : 14.», with «E. C. R.» at the left (the words) and «E. C. RIGGS.» at the right (the music) on its second line. At the foot of PDF 585: «From "Coronet," by per. Root & Cady.» and the folio «584». The stanza (two systems) is on PDF 585 with the three stanzas interlinear, numbered «1.»–«3.»; the REFRAIN is the first system of PDF 586 under the running head «SHE SLEEPS HER LAST SLEEP.—Concluded.», with two lines of words: the upper line, and the lower one headed in italics «Last stanza.» — the refrain's words after the last stanza. Syllable hyphens are joined («Sor - row-ful», «mourn - er», «si - lent-ly», «Peace-ful - ly», «Gent - ly», «o - ver», «Light-ly», «light - ly», «beau - ti - ful», «Mu - sic - al», «re - qui - em», «up - on»); «song-birds» keeps its (closed-up) hyphen and «pine - boughs» is written «pine-boughs» like it (see uncertainties.md). Two letters stand as printed in stanza 1: «tby» (verse 2; the refrain prints «thy») and «must he entombed» (verse 4; «be» is meant) — printer's slips, logged in uncertainties.md and truth.json. The print's thin space before «;» is closed up; curly quotes and apostrophes are written straight.