Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: I would not weep when passing clouds
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
Tune: Leander
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 268, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI would not weep when passing clouds
Obscure life's summer day,
Or when a deeper gloom o'erspreads my ever changeful way:
But through the dreariest night of gloom
The darkest clouds of care,
Look up to heaven's pure, steadfast light,
And seek for solace there.
I would not weep, though one by one
My earthly visions fade;
Nor backward turn to mourn o'er hopes
Of happiness decayed;
But fix my yearning heart on heaven,
Secure of promis'd bliss
In that blest land--howe'er severe
My sorrows seem in this.
I would not weep, though faithful hearts,
The trusting and the kind,
Should go to seek a higher sphere,
While I am left behind:
But lift my thoughts to that abode,
Where, free from every stain,
Their happy spirits fondly wait
To welcome me again.