Asleep in Jesus!

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

2. Asleep in Jesus! oh, how sweet
   To be for such a slumber meet!
   With holy confidence to sing
   That death hath lost its venomed sting!

3. Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest!
   Whose waking is supremely blest;
   No fear—no woe shall dim the hour
   That manifests the Savior's power.

4. Asleep in Jesus! oh, for me
   May such a blisful [sic.] refuge be:
   Securely shall my ashes lie.
   And wait the summons from on high.

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