Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: What though no flow'rs the fig-tree clothe
Topic: Providence
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: Song 20
Page Number: 146, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHAT though no flow'rs the fig-tree 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.