Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: 'Tis midnight and on Olive's brow
Topic: Christ/Sufferings
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 159
Page Number: 099, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics'T is midnight; and on Olive's brow
The star is dimm'd that lately shone;
'T is midnight; in the garden now,
The suff'ring Saviour prays alone.
'T is midnight; and, from all remov'd,
The Saviour wrestles lone, with fears;
E'en that disciple whom he lov'd
Heeds not his Master's grief and tears.
'T is midnight; and for others' guilt
The man of sorrows weeps in blood;
Yet he that hath in anguish knelt
Is not forsaken by his God.
'T is midnight; from the heavenly plains
Is borne the song that angels know;
Unheard by mortals are the strains
That sweetly soothe the Saviour's wo.