Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: O thou who driest the mourner's eye
Topic: Christian/Afflictions
Writer: Thomas Moore
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: Manoah
Hymn Number: 276
Page Number: 091, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO THOU who driest the mourner's tear,
How dark this world would be,
If, when deceived and wounded 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-
Then sorrow, touched by thee, grows bright
With more than rapture's ray;
The darkness shows us worlds of light
We never say by day.