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Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: What though no flow'rs the fig-tree clothe (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1843

Compiler: A Campbell/ W Scott/ B W Stone/ J T Johnson

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: What though no flow'rs the fig-tree clothe

Topic: Providence

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune: Hopewell

Hymn Number: Song 15 (part I)

Page Number: 090 (part I), click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

What though no flow'rs the fig-tree clothe,

Though vines their fruit deny,

The labor of the olive fail,

And fields no food supply-



Though from the fold, with sad surprise,

My flock cut off I see;

Though famine pine in empty stalls,

Where herds were wont to be-



Yet in the Lord will I be glad,

And glory in his love;

In him I'll joy, who will the God

Of my salvation prove.



God is the treasure of my soul,

The source of lasting joy;

A joy which want shall not impair,

Nor death itself destroy.