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Hymn: 'Tis midnight and on Olive's brow (FL)

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.