Christ My Song - 987
Mourner! is thy heart still grieving - To a Bereaved Christian Friend (Charlotte Elliott/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
To a Bereaved Christian Friend.
1. Mourner! is thy heart still grieving,
secret tears sad traces leaving,
frequent sighs thy bosom heaving? –
Why dost thou weep? PDF - Midi
2. Dost thou mourn those gone before thee?
Lost is not the love they bore thee:
they may now be watching o'er thee. –
Why dost thou weep?
3. Though thy path on earth be shaded,
has not death left uninvaded
worlds of bliss and joys unfaded? –
Why dost thou weep?
4. Hath not Christ thy sins remitted?
Will not thy glad soul, when fitted,
into heaven be soon admitted? –
Why dost thou weep?
5. Should the ills of life distress thee?
Grief, care, loneliness depress thee?
With thy Saviour near to bless thee, –
why dost thou weep?
6. Ever near, to walk beside thee,
near to counsel, guard, and guide thee;
say, can any ill betide thee? –
Why dost thou weep?
Charlotte Elliott, Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, 189-190.