Oh, Where Shall Rest Be Found Lyrics James Montgomery, 1819
5 verses, meter S.M., public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. Oh, where shall rest be found—
Rest for the weary soul?
’Twere vain the ocean depths to sound,
Or pierce to either pole.
Verse 2. The world can never give
The bliss for which we sigh;
’Tis not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.
Verse 3. Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.
Verse 4. There is a death, whose pang
Outlasts the fleeting breath;
Oh, what eternal horrors hang
Around the second death!
Verse 5. Lord God of truth and grace,
Teach us that death to shun,
Lest we be banished from thy face,
And evermore undone.
Words copied from The Otterbein Hymnal (1892). They were published in 1819, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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