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Hymn: Dark was the night and cold the ground (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: Dark was the night and cold the ground

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> By Permission

Composer: P Dayhoff

Meter: CM

Tune: Adullam

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 090, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Dark was the night, and cold the ground

On which the Lord was laid;

His sweat like drops of blood ran down;

In agony he prayed:



"Father, remove this bitter cup,

If such thy sacred will;

If not, content to drink it up,

Thy pleasure I fulfill."



Go to the garden, sinner; see

Those precious drops that flow;

The heavy load he bore for thee,

For thee he lies so low.



Then learn of him the cross to bear;

Thy Father's will obey;

And, when temptations press thee near,

Awake to watch and pray.