
1 Lord, in this thy mercy's day,
ere it pass for aye away,
on our knees we fall and pray.
2 Holy Jesu, grant us tears,
fill us with heart-searching fears,
ere that awful doom appears.
3 Lord, on us thy Spirit pour,
kneeling lowly at the door,
ere it close for evermore.
4 By thy night of agony,
by thy supplicating cry,
by thy willingness to die;
5 by thy tears of bitter woe,
for Jerusalem below,
let us not thy love forgo.
6 Grant us 'neath thy wings a place,
lest we lose the day of grace
ere we shall behold thy face.
Source: CPWI Hymnal #118
First Line: | Lord, in this Thy mercy's day |
Title: | Lord, in This Thy Mercy's Day |
Author: | Isaac Williams (1842) |
Meter: | 7.7.7 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Lord, in this Thy mercy's day. I. Williams. [Lent—A Metrical Litany.] This hymn is taken from "Image the Twentieth," a poem on "The Day of Days; or, the Great Manifestation," in 105 stanzas of 3 lines, which forms a part of his work, The Baptistery; or, The Way of Eternal Life, 1844. It was given with slight changes in the Cooke & Denton Hymnal, 1853, in 6 stanzas. It has been repeated in full or in part in numerous collections in Great Britain and America, and is a most suitable metrical Litany for Lent.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)