Hymns for Childhood/Hymn by the Sick Bed of a Mother

by Felicia Hemans

HYMN

BY THE SICK BED OF A MOTHER.

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Father! that in the olive shade
    When the dark hour came on,
Didst, with a breath of heavenly aid,
Strengthen thy Son;

Oh! by the anguish of that night,
    Send us down blest relief;
Or to the chastened, let Thy might
Hallow this grief!

And Thou, that when the starry sky
    Saw the dread strife begun,
Didst teach adoring faith to cry,
"Thy will be done;"

By thy meek spirit, Thou, of all
    That e'er have mourned the chief—
Thou Saviour! if the stroke must fall,
Hallow this grief!

THE END.