Come Unto Me (Stebbins)
Authors: Nathanael Norton • Composers: George C. Stebbins • Meter: 10.10.10.10. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1914 • Special Collections: Invitation
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1. “Come unto Me.” It is the Savior’s voice,—
The Lord of life, who bids thy heart rejoice;
O weary heart, with heavy cares opprest;
“Come unto Me,” and I will give you rest.
Refrain:
“Come unto Me, come unto Me,
(“Come unto Me, O, come unto Me,)
Come unto Me, and I will give you rest,
(Come unto Me,)
I will give you rest (will give you rest),
I will give you rest (will give you rest).”
2. Weary with life’s long struggle, full of pain,
O doubting soul, thy Savior calls again;
Thy doubts shall vanish, and thy sorrows cease,
“Come unto Me,” and I will give you peace.
3. O, dying man, with guilt and sin dismayed,
With conscience wakened, of thy God afraid;
‘Twixt hopes and fears—oh, end the anxious strife,
“Come unto Me,” and I will give you life.
4. Rest, peace, and life, the flow’rs of deathless bloom,
The Savior gives us,—not beyond the tomb—
But here, and now: on earth some glimpse is giv’n
Of joys which wait us thro’ the gates of Heav’n.