"To Rest Let Him Gently Be Laid" (1876)
Song & Chorus
Companion to
"Over the Hill to the Poor House" [1874]
Words by George Cooper (1840-1927)
Music  by David Braham (1838-1905)

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Plate No. 9108
[Source:
CALL NUMBER
M2.3.U6A44
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1870-1885 
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division. 
DIGITAL ID
sm1876 06448 urn:hdl:loc.music/sm1876.06448 
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1876.06448]

1. No more will the storm beat around him, 
That father so feeble and old; 
For angels, bright angels have found him, 
And o’er him their pinions they fold. 
Forsaken by those he protected, 
And thrown on this harse world to die; 
Alone and despised and neglected, 
No more will he sorrow and sigh.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
Oh, softly he murmur’d forgiveness, 
And bow'd his gray head on his breast; 
They’re bringing him back from the poorhouse, 
To yander fair mansions of rest.

2. Once bright was the future before him, 
With home and fair children so dear; 
But clouds of misfortune came o’er him, 
And no one to help him came near. 
His pleadings and sorrows unheeded, 
Out into the streets he was cast; 
And e’en by his children asshielded, 
Heart-broken he perish’d at last.

3. For him there was no sweet caressing, 
For him there was no gentle tear; 
Yet fondly he pray’d for a blessing   
On those who had wrong’d him so here. 
Though none o’er his pillow are weeping, 
Though rude is the grave they have made; 
God love’s hom so peacefully sleeping, 
To rest let him gently be laid.