Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: O thou who driest the mourner's tear
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Tune: Light in Darkness
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 231, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO Thou who driest the mourner's tear,
How dark this world would be
If, pierced by sins and sorrows here,
We could not fly to thee.
The friends who in our sunshine live,
When winter comes, are flown;
And he who has but tears to give,
Must weep those tears alone.
Oh who could bear life's stormy doom,
Did not Thy wing of love
Come brightly wafting thro' the gloom,
Our peace-branch from above?
Then sorrow, touch'd by Thee, grows bright
With more than rapture's ray.
As darkness shows us worlds of light
We never saw by day.