HEAR WHAT THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN PROCLAIMS

1HEAR what the voice from heaven proclaims,
For all the pious dead:
Sweet is the savor of their names,
And soft their sleeping bed.

2They die in Jesus, and are blessed;
How kind their slumbers are!
From suffering and from sin released,
And freed from every snare.

3Freed from this world of toil and strife,
They're sleeping in the Lord.
Freed from the ills of mortal life,
They wait a rich reward.