Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: The morning dawns upon the place
Topic: Christ/Sufferings
Writer: <no first name given> Montgomery
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 158
Page Number: 098, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe morning dawns upon the place
Where Jesus spent the night in prayer;
Through yielding glooms behold his face!
Nor form, nor comeliness is there.
Brought forth to judgment, now he stands
Arraigned, condemned, at Pilate's bar;
Here, spurned by fierce praetorian bands,
There, mocked by Herod's men of war.
He bears their buffeting and scorn --
Mock-homage of the lip, the knee --
The purple robe, the crown of thorn --
The scourge, the nail, th' accursed tree.
No guile within his mouth is found;
He neither threatens nor complains;
Meek as a lamb for slaughter bound,
Dumb 'mid his murderers he remains.
But hark, he prays: 't is for his foes;
And speaks: 't is comfort to his friends;
Answers: and paradise bestows;
He bows his head: the conflict ends.