Tracing out Wisdom, Power, and Love When with dear friends sweet talk I hold, When the soft dews of kindly sleep Abide with me from morn till eve, If some poor wandering child of thine Watch by the sick; enrich the poor Come near, and bless us when we wake, We lose ourselves in Heaven above. KEBLE. RESIGNATION. LORD, it belongs not to my care To love and serve thee is my share, If short-yet why should I be sad, Christ leads me through no darker rooms Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet Thy blessed face to see; For if thy work on earth be sweet, What will thy glory be? Then I shall end my sad complaints, And join with the triumphant saints, The eye of faith is dim; But 'tis enough that Christ knows all, And I shall be with him. BAXTER. FOR GOOD FRIDAY. STABAT Mater dolorosa, Cujus animam gementem, O quam tristis et afflicta Quæ morebat et dolebat, Quis est homo qui non fleret Quis non posset contristari Pro peccatis suæ gentis Vidit suum dulcem natum, Dum emisit spiritum. FOR GOOD FRIDAY. By the cross unheeded sighing, Through her heart, with sorrows riven, Sharp the destined sword was driven, Sharp beyond her worst forebode. Blest of women-with what anguish How she watched, in bitterest moaning, Fainting, sickening, trembling, groaning, All the tortures of her Son! Lives there one, who, coldly gazing, To the cross, where, broken-hearted, Clings and weeps his speechless woe? Wounded for the world's transgression, Murdered to make intercession, Scourged by those he came to save, That sweet Son, by most forsaken, Eja Christe,* fons amoris, Fac, ut tecum lugeam: Sancte Pater, istud agas Tui nati vulnerati, Tam dignati pro me pati, Fac me juxta crucem flere, Donec ego vixero. Flens cum flente Matre stare, Me cum illâ sociare In planctu desidero. Fac ut portem Christi mortem, Flammis ne urar succensus Per te, Jesu, sim defensus Quando corpus morietur, Fac ut animæ donetur Paradisi gloria. ANCIENT ECCLESIASTICAL HYMN. *It is hoped that no one will object to the slight alterations by which the remainder of this hymn is transferred to the true object of worship. |