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Text:This Is Not My Place Of Resting
Author:Horatius Bonar
Tune:VESPER
Composer:Friedrich von Flotow
Media:MIDI file

11074. This Is Not My Place Of Resting

1 This is not my place of resting;
Mine’s a city yet to come;
Onwards to it I am hasting—
On to my eternal home.

2 In it all is light and glory,
O’er it shines a nightless day;
Every trace of sin’s sad story—
All the curse has passed away.

3 There the Lamb, our shepherd, leads us
By the streams of life along;
On the freshest pastures feeds us,
Turns our sighing into song.

4 Soon we pass this desert dreary,
Soon we bid farewell to pain;
Never more be sad or weary,
Never, never sin again.

Text Information
First Line: This is not my place of resting
Title: This Is Not My Place Of Resting
Author: Horatius Bonar
Meter: 87.87
Language: English
Source: The Bible Hymn-Book, 1845
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: VESPER
Composer: Friedrich von Flotow (arr.)
Meter: 87.87
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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