Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Among the mountain trees
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: T Edmondson
Composer: A Fillmore
Meter: 6 6 8 6 8 8
Tune: Gethsemane
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 219, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAmong the mountain trees
The winds were whispering low,
And night's ten thousand harmonies
Were harmonies of woe;
A voice of grief was on the gale;
It was the Saviour's prayer
That on the silence broke,
Imploring strength from Heaven to bear
The sin avenging stroke;
As in Gethsemane he knelt,
The fitful starlight shone
In dim and misty gleams;
Deep was his agonizing groan,
And large the vital streams
That trickled to the dewy sod
The chosen three that stay'd
Their nightly watch to keep,
Left him through sorrows deep to wade,
And gave themselves to sleep:
Meekly and sad he pray'd alone.
Along the streamlet's bank
The rockless traitor came,
And heavy on his bosom sank
The load of guilt and shame:
Yet unto them that waited nigh