Now Let Our Mourning Hearts Revive

 

VERSE 1

Now let our mourning hearts revive,

And all our tears be dry;

Why should those eyes be drowned in grief

Which view a Savior nigh?

 

VERSE 2

What though the arm of conquering death

Does God’s own house invade?

What though the prophet and the priest

Be numbered with the dead?

 

VERSE 3

Though earthly shepherds dwell in dust,

The aged and the young,

The watchful eye, in darkness closed,

And mute th’instructive tongue.

 

VERSE 4

The Eternal Shepherd still survives,

New comfort to impart;

His eye still guides us, and His voice

Still animates our heart.

 

VERSE 5

 “Lo! I am with you,” saith the Lord,

“My Church shall safe abide;

For I will ne’er forsake My own,

Whose souls in Me confide.”

 

VERSE 6

Through every scene of life and death,

This promise is our trust;

And this shall be our children’s song,

When we are cold in dust.

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