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Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep 
Asleep in Jesus, blessèd sleep, from which none ever wakes to weep; a calm and undisturbed repose, unbroken by the last of foes. 
Asleep in Jesus, O how sweet, to be for such a slumber meet, with holy confidence to sing that death has lost his venomed sting! 
Asleep in Jesus, peaceful rest, whose waking is supremely blessed; no fear, no woe, shall dim that hour that manifests the Savior’s power. 
Asleep in Jesus, O for me may such a blessèd refuge be! securely shall my ashes lie and wait the summons from on high. 
Asleep in Jesus! Far from thee thy kindred and their graves may be; but there is still a blessèd sleep, from which none ever wakes to weep. 
Margaret Mackay (1802-1887), 1832 
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This verse (the penultimate in the original) is omitted in the American Episcopal hymnals: 
Asleep in Jesus, time nor space debars this precious “hiding place”; on Indian plains or Lapland snows believers find the same respose.