Christ My Song - 2106
There are ten at the feet of the Saviour - Ingratitude
(John S. B. Monsell/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
Ingratitude.
Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.
"Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
There are not found that returned to give glory to God
save this stranger." (Luke 17,18)
1. There are ten at the feet of the Saviour,
in wearisome sickness they pine;
they are whole, but is this their behaviour!
'Ten cleansèd! – but where are the nine?' PDF - Midi
2. They came all one sorrow confessing,
they knelt with one prayer at his shrine,
he sent them all back with one blessing,
'Ten cleansèd! – but where are the nine?'
3. They were one in the season of danger,
how many own Mercy divine?
Only one! – and that one is a 'stranger!'
'Ten cleansèd! – but where are the nine?'
4. O Saviour! how often in sadness
our steps to thine altar incline,
but return not in sunshine and gladness,
'Ten cleansèd! – but where are the nine?'
5. We shrink from the pain of displeasure,
we heed not its loving design;
all we want seems the freedom of leisure,
'Ten cleansèd! – but where are the nine?'
6. The vows – that in sickness or sorrow
engaged us tenfold to be thine –
will they live thro' the joy of tomorrow?
'Ten cleansèd! – but where are the nine?'
7. Better far our afflictions remaining,
if grace with the chast'ning combine,
than to call forth thy gentle complaining,
'Ten cleansèd! – but where are the nine?'
John S. B. Monsell, 'Spiritual Songs', 1864, 143-144.