O Sad-Faced Mourners

O sad-faced mourn­ers, who each day are wend­ing

Author: May Riley Smith
Tune: CONSOLATION (Mendelssohn)
Published in 1 hymnal

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 O sad-faced mourn­ers, who each day are wend­ing
Through church­yard paths of cyp­ress and of yew,
Leave, for to­day, the low graves you are tend­ing,
And lift your eyes to God’s eter­nal blue!

2 Leave, for to­day, all mur­mur­ing and sad­ness;
Twine Eas­ter li­lies, and not as­pho­dels;
Let your souls an­swer to the thrill of glad­ness,
And to the me­lo­dy of Eas­ter bells.

3 If Christ were still with­in the gra­ve’s low prison—
A cap­tive to the ene­my you dread;
If from that moul­der­ing cell He had not ris­en,
Who then could chide the bit­ter tears you shed?

4 Poor hearts! the but­ter­fly, with pin­ions gold­en,
Spurns that gray cell which once its free­dom barred;
And the freed soul, with wings no long­er hold­en,
Smiles back on life as on a brok­en shard.

5 If Christ were dead, you would have need to sor­row;
But He has ris­en, and con­quered death for aye!
So dry your tears, if on­ly till the mor­row;
Arise, and give your grief a ho­li­day!


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16524

Author: May Riley Smith

Born Rochester, New York. Married Albert Smith. Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: O sad-faced mourn­ers, who each day are wend­ing
Title: O Sad-Faced Mourners
Author: May Riley Smith
Source: Sometimes and Other Poems (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1893)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #16524
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The Cyber Hymnal #16524

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