Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: 'Tis midnight and on Olive's brow
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: LM
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Hymn Number: 674
Page Number: 394, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics'Tis midnight-and on Olive's brow
The star is dim'd, that lately shone;
'Tis midnight-in the garden now
The suff'ring Savior prays alone.
'Tis midnight-and from all remov'd,
Immanuel wrestles lone with fears;
E'en the disciple that he loved,
Heeds not his Master's griefs and tears.
'Tis midnight-and for other's guilt,
The man of sorrows weeps his blood;
Yet he that hath in anguish knelt,
Is not forsaken of his God.
'Tis midnight-from the heavenly plains
Is borne the song that angels know;
Unheard by mortals are the strains
That sweetly soothe the Savior's woe.