Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: When musing sorrow weeps the past
Topic: The Gospel/The Hope of Eternal Life
Writer: B Noel
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 432
Page Number: 264, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen musing sorrow weeps the past,
And mourns the present pain,
;T is sweet to think of peace at last,
And feel that death is gain.
'T is not that murmuring thoughts arise,
And dread a Father's will;
'T is not that meek submission flies,
And would not suffer still.
It is that heaven-born faith surveys
The path that leads to light,
And longs her eagle plumes to raise,
And lose herself in sight.
It is that troubled conscience feels
The pangs of struggling sing,
And sees, though far, the hand that heals,
And ends the strife within.
O, let me wing my hallowed flight
From earth-born wo and care,
And soar above these clouds of night,
My Saviour's bliss to share.