Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: With earnest longings of the mind (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1853

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: With earnest longings of the mind

Topic: Afflictions

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: Song 51

Page Number: 168, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

WITH earnest longings of the mind,

My God, to thee I look;

So pants the hunted hart to find

And taste the cooling brook.



When shall I see thy courts of grace,

And meet my God again?

So long an absence from thy face

My heart endures with pain.



'Tis with a mournful pleasure now

I think on ancient days;

Then to thy house did numbers go,

And all our work was praise.



But why, my soul, sunk down so far,

Beneath this heavy load?

Why do my thoughts indulge despair,

And sin against my God?



Hope in the Lord, whose mighty hand

Can all thy woes remove;

For I shall yet before him stand,

And sing restoring love.