Weeping And Wailing Needs Must Be. (Hymn)

"Blessed are ye that weep now."

Weeping and wailing needs must be
    When Love His name shall disavow,
When christen'd men His wrath shall dree,
Who mercy scorn'd in this their day;
But what? He turns not yet away,
    Not yet - not now.

Let me not, waken'd after sleep,
    Behold a Judge with lowering brow,
The world must weep, and I must weep
Those sins that nail'd Thee on the tree,
Lord Jesu, of Thy clemency.
    Let it be NOW.

Let us have weeping NOW for sin,
    And not us only; let Thy tears
Avail the tears of many to win;
Weep with us, Jesu, kind art Thou;
We that have sinn'd many long years,
    Let us weep NOW;

And then, waked up, behold Thy face,
    Who did forgive us. See Thy brow -
Beautiful - learn Thy love and grace.
Then wilt Thou wipe away our tears,
And comfort in th' all-hallow'd spheres,
    Them that weep now.

Jean Ingelow

Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist known for her popular stories and poems in the 19th century. Her work, including 'Mopsa the Fairy', earned her recognition during her lifetime. She was also involved in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Ingelow published several poetry collections, with her first in 1863, which was well-received and cemented her reputation as a poet.

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Katie, Aged Five Years.

(ASLEEP IN THE DAYTIME.)

All rough winds are hushed and silent, golden light the meadow steepeth,
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    With a sunbeam on her hair.

Calm, and draped in snowy raiment she lies still, as one that dreameth,
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Seven Times Five. Widowhood.

I sleep and rest, my heart makes moan
Before I am well awake;
"Let me bleed! O let me alone,
Since I must not break!"

For children wake, though fathers sleep
With a stone at foot and at head:
O sleepless God, forever keep,
Keep both living and dead!

I lift mine eyes, and what to see
But a world happy and fair!
I have not wished it to mourn with me -
Comfort is not there.

O what anear but golden brooms,
And a waste of reedy rills!
O what afar but the fine glooms
On the rare blue hills!

I shall not die, but live forlore -
How bitter it is to part!
O to meet thee, my love, once more!
O my heart, my heart!

No more to hear, no more to see!
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O Night Of Nights! (Hymn)

"Let us now go even unto Bethlehem."

O Night of nights! O night
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The ancient heavens fled forth in light
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Lo! while as like to die
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"While it was yet dark."

Mary of Magdala, when the moon had set,
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'Neath many pounds' weight of fragrant spicery.

Mary of Magdala, in her misery,
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Jesus, The Lamb Of God. (Hymn)

"Art Thou He that should come?"

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John, the forerunner, John, the desert's tameless son,
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