Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: O thou who driest the mourner's tear
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> Moore
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1005
Page Number: 595, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO Thou who driest the mourner's tear,
How dark this world would be,
If, when deceived and wounded here,
We could not fly to thee.
But thou wilt heal the broken heart,
Which like the plants that throw
Their fragrance from the wounded part,
Breathless sweetness out of woe.
When joy no longer soothes or cheers,
And e'en the hope that threw
A moment sparkle o'er our tears
Is dimmed and vanished too;
O, who would bear life's stormy doom,
Did not thy wing of love
Come, brightly wafting through the gloom
Our peace-branch from above?
Then sorrow, touched by thee grows bright
With more than rapture's ray;
The darkness shows us worlds of light
We never saw by day.