A Blessing for Those Who Mourn

Verse 1

Deem not that they are blest alone Whose days a peaceful tenor keep; The anointed Son of God makes known, A blessing for the eyes that weep.

Verse 2

The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tears; And weary hours of woe and pain Are promises of happier years.

Verse 3

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; Though grief may bide an evening guest, Yet joy shall come with early light.

Verse 4

Nor let the good man's trust depart, Though life its common gifts deny, Though with a pierced and broken heart, And spurned of men, he goes to die.

Verse 5

For God has marked each sorrowing day, And numbered every secret tear; And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay For all His children suffer here.