Now The Laborer's Task Is O’er
- Words:
- John Ellerton
- Music:
- John B. Dykes
Sheet music
- 1Now the laborer’s task is o’er;Now the battle day is past;Now upon the farther shoreLands the voyager at last.Father, in Thy gracious keepingLeave we now Thy servant sleeping.Amen.
- 2There the tears of earth are dried;There its hidden things are clear;There the work of life is triedBy a juster Judge than here.Father, in Thy gracious keepingLeave we now Thy servant sleeping.Amen.
- 3There the penitents that turnTo the cross their dying eyes,All the love of Jesus learnAt His feet in paradise.Father, in Thy gracious keepingLeave we now Thy servant sleeping.Amen.
- 4There no more the pow’rs of hellCan prevail to mar their peace;Christ the Lord shall guard them well,He Who died for their release.Father, in Thy gracious keepingLeave we now Thy servant sleeping.Amen.
- 5”Earth to earth, and dust to dust,”Calmly now the words we say,Leaving him to sleep in trustTill the resurrection day.Father, in Thy gracious keepingLeave we now Thy servant sleeping.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1870, the words are in 128 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.