Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: O why this disconsolate frame
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 8s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1028
Page Number: 609, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO why this disconsolate frame!
Though earthly enjoyments decay,
My Jesus is ever the same--
My Sun in the gloomiest day.
Though molten awhile in the fire,
'Tis only the gold to refine;
And be this my simple desire,
Though suffering, not to repine.
O what are the pleasures to me
Which earth in its fullness can boast?
Delusive, its vanities flee-
A flash of enjoyment at most.
And if my Redeemer could part,
For me, with his throne in the skies,
O why is so dear to my heart
What he in his wisdom denies?
Then Let the rude tempest assail,
Let blasts of adversity blow,
The heavens, though distant, I hail,
Beyond this rough ocean of wo.
When safe on that beautiful strand,
I'd smile on the billows that foam;
Kind angels to hail me to land,
And Jesus to welcome me home.