Sleep thy last sleep

Sleep thy last sleep. Edward Arthur Dayman* (1807-1890).  First published in The Sarum Hymnal (1868), edited by Dayman with Horatio Bolton Nelson* and James Russell Woodford*, in a section ‘For the Service at the Burial of the Dead, and in Times of Affliction’.  It had three 8-line stanzas, prefaced by a quotation from Hosea 14: 7: ‘They that dwell under His shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn’:  Sleep thy last sleep,   Free from care and sorrow, Rest, where none weep,   Till the eternal morrow; Though dark waves roll   O’er the silent river, Thy fainting soul   Jesus can deliver. Life's dream is past,  All its sin and sadness;Brightly at last  Dawns a day of gladness:Under...