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Hymn: When darkness long has vailed my mind (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: When darkness long has vailed my mind

Topic: The New Life/Temptations and Conflicts

Writer: <no first name given> Cowper

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 854

Page Number: 503, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

When darkness long has vailed my mind,

And smiling day once more appears;

Then, my Creator! then I find

The folly of my doubts and fears.



Straight I upbraid my wandering heart,

And blush that I should ever be

Thus prone to act so base a part,

Or harbor one hard thought of thee.



O, let me then at length be taught

What I am still so slow to learn,--

That God is love, and changes not,

Nor knows the shadow of a turn.



Sweet truth, and easy to repeat!

But, when my faith is sharply tried,

I find myself a learner yet,

Unskillful, weak, and apt to slide.



But, O my God! one look from thee

Subdues the disobedient will,

Drives doubt and discontent away

And thy rebellious child is still.