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Affliction's faded form draws nigh

Affliction's faded form draws nigh

Author: William H. Drummond
Published in 15 hymnals

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Affliction’s faded form draws nigh,
With wrinkled brow and downcast eye;
With sackcloth on her bosom spread,
And ashes scattered o’er her head.

But deem her not a child of earth;
From heaven she draws her sacred birth;
Beside the throne of God she stands
To execute his kind commands.

The messenger of love, she flies
To train us for our sphere, the skies;
And onward as we move, the way
Becomes more smooth, more bright the day.

Her weeds to robes of glory turn,
Her looks with kindling radiance burn;
And from her lips these accents steal,—
“God smites to bless, he wounds to heal!”



Source: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #329

Author: William H. Drummond

Drummond, William Hamilton, D.D., son of an Irish physician, was born at Ballyclare, Antrim, Ireland, 1772, and died at Dublin, Oct. 16, 1865. Educated for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, he became, in 1793, the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Belfast, and in 1816, of the Strand Street Chapel, Dublin. His poetical works include:— (1) Juvenile Poems, 1797; (2) Trafalger, 1805; (3) The Giant's Causeway, 1811; (4) Clontarf, 1817; (5) Who are the Happy? a Poem, on the Christian Beatitudes, with other Poems on Sacred Subjects, 1818. In 1818 A Selection of Psalms & Hymns for the Use of the Presbytery of Antrim, and the Congregation of Strand Street, Dublin, was published at Belfast. This Selection was probably edited… Go to person page >

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First Line: Affliction's faded form draws nigh
Author: William H. Drummond
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) #329

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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. (10th ed.) #329

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship #CXIX

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary #514

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship #122

Conference Hymns and Tunes #d4

Grammar School Hymn Book #d5

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Hymn Book for Christian Worship #632

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Hymn Book for Christian Worship. 8th ed. #a632

Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship #d10

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The Gospel Psalmist #702

The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies #449

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The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies #449

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The School Hymn-Book #220

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