Asleep in Jesus

Verse 1 Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes!

Verse 2 Asleep in Jesus! O how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet;
With holy confidence to sing,
That death has lost its venomed sting!

Verse 3 Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest,
Whose waking is supremely blest!
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
That manifests the Saviour’s pow’r.

Verse 4 Asleep in Jesus! O for me,
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie,
And wait the summons from on high.

Verse 5 Asleep in Jesus! time nor space
Affects this precious hiding place;
On Indian plains, on Lapland snows,
Believers find the same repose.

Verse 6 Asleep in Jesus! far from thee,
Thy kindred and their graves may be,
But thine is still a blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep.