You help make Hymnary.org possible.

In 2025, more than 10 million people from 200+ countries found hymns, liturgical resources, and encouragement here. If Hymnary has meant something to you this year, would you take a moment to help sustain it? A gift of any size — and a note of encouragement, if you'd like to share one — directly supports the server costs, research, and curation that keep this resource freely available to the world.

Give securely online today, or mail a check to:
Hymnary.org (c/o Calvin University)
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Thank you for being part of this important online ministry resource.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Drop, drop slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet
Author:Phineas Fletcher, 1582-1650
Tune:SONG 46
Composer:Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625

82. Drop, drop slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet

1 Drop, drop, slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet,
Which brought from heaven, The news and Prince of peace.

2 Cease not, wet eyes, His mercies to entreat;
To cry for vengeance Sin doth never cease.

3 In your deep floods Drown all my faults and fears;
Nor let his eye See sin, but through my tears.

Text Information
First Line: Drop, drop slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet
Author: Phineas Fletcher, 1582-1650
Meter: 10 10
Language: English
Publication Date: 1986
Topic: The Christian Year: Passiontide
Tune Information
Name: SONG 46
Composer: Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625
Meter: 10 10
Key: F Major
Notes: First strain of Song 46



Media
More media are available on the text authority and tune authority pages.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.