Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: O thou who driest the mourner's tear
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: China
Hymn Number: 692
Page Number: 253, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO thou who driest the mourn-er's tear,
How dark this world would be,
If, when de-ceived and wound-ed here,
We could not fly to thee.
But thou wilt heal the broken heart,
Which, like the plants that throw
Their fragrance from the wounded part,
Breathes sweetness out of woe.
When joy no longer soothes or cheers,
And e'en the hope that threw
A moment's sparkle o'er our tears
Is dimmed and vanished too;
Oh, who would bear life a stormy doom,
Did not thy wing of love
Come brightly wafting through the gloom,
Our peace-branch from above?
Then sorrow, touched by thee, grows bright
With more than rapture's ray;
The darkness shows us worlds of light
We never saw by day.