The Cyber Hymnal ‎#13486

13486. What! Is This The Only Rest?

1 What! Is this the only rest
Earth affords her heavenly guest?
For the Child she had no room,
To the Man she gives—a tomb.

2 O, Thou weary Man of Love,
Here is stone around, above;
’Tis the dark world’s stony heart,
Enter, and fulfill Thy part.

3 Tender linen swathes Thee round,
And a napkin soft is bound
O’er Thy features sorrow-worn,
And Thy brow so sharply torn.

4 Such a day deserves its night,
O, sleep on and gather might;
When it pleases Thee to wake,
Tomb and world alike shall shake.

Text Information

• First Line: What! Is this the only rest
• Title: What! Is This The Only Rest?
• Author: Thomas T. Lynch
• Meter: 77.77
• Language: English
• Source: The Rivulet (3rd ed, enl.) (London: Longmans, Green, Readyer & Dyer, 1868)
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: CANTERBURY by Orlando Gibbons, GENTLE JESUS by Martin F. Shaw, GLAD DAY by William W. Gilchrist

Tune Information

• Name: HEINLEIN
• Meter: 77.77
• Key: d minor or modal
• Source: Nürnbergisches Gesangbuch, 1676
• Copyright: Public Domain