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Hymn: What tho' no flow'rs the fig tree clothe (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1828

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: What tho' no flow'rs the fig tree clothe

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Meter: CM

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Hymn Number: Song 33

Page Number: 116, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

WHAT tho' no flow'rs the figtree clothe,

Though vines their fruit deny,

The labor of the olive fail,

And fields no food supply?



Though from the fold, with sad surprise,

My flock cut off I see;

Though famine pine in empty stalls,

Where herds were wont to be?



Yet in the Lord will I be glad,

And glory in his love;

In him I'll joy, who will the God 

Of my salvation prove.



God is the treasure of my soul,

The source of lasting joy;

A joy which want shall not impair,

Nor death itself destroy.