Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: As oft with worn and weary feet
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> Wilberforce
Composer:
Meter: LM six lines
Tune:
Hymn Number: 997
Page Number: 591, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAs oft, with worn and weary feet,
We tread earth's rugged valley o'er,
The thought -- how comforting and sweet!
Christ took this very path before!
Our wants and weaknesses he knows,
From life's first dawning to its close.
Do sickness, feebleness, or pain,
Or sorrow in our path appear?
The recollection will remain,
More deeply did he suffer here!
His life, how truly sad and brief,
Filled up with suff'ring and with grief!
If Satan tempt our hearts to stray,
And whisper evil things within,
So did he, in the desert way,
Assail our Lord with thoughts of sin;
When worn, and in a feeble hour,
The tempter came with all his power.
Just such as I, this earth he trod,
With every human ill but sin;
And, though indeed the Son of God,
As I am now, so he has been.
My God, my Saviour, look on me
With pity, love, and sympathy.