Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Among the mountain trees
Topic: Christ/Sufferings
Writer: T Edmunson
Composer:
Meter: SHM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 166
Page Number: 103, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAmong the mountain trees,
The winds were whispering low,
And night's ten thousand harmonies
Were harmonies of wo;
A voice of grief was on the gale.
It came from Cedron's gloomy vale.
It was the Saviour's prayer
That on the silence broke,
Imploring strength from heav'n to bear
The sin-avenging stroke,
As in Gethsemane he knelt,
And pangs unknown his bosom felt.
The fitful starlight shone
In dim and misty gleams,
Deep was his agonizing groan,
And large the vital streams
That trickled to the dewy sod,
While Jesus raised his voice to God.
The chosen three that staid,
Their nightly watch to keep,
Left him through sorrows deep to wade,
And gave themselves to sleep:
Meekly and sad, he pray'd alone;
Strangely forgotten by his own.
Along the streamlet's banks
The reckless traitor came,
And heavy on his bosom sank
The load of guilt and shame;
Yet unto them that waited nigh
He gave the Lamb of God to die.
Among the mountain trees
The winds were whispering low,
And night's ten thousand harmonies
Were harmonies of wo;
For cruel voices fill'd the gale
That came from Cedron's gloomy vale.