the heavier God The cross, nearer the

C459 E624 K459 T624
1
The nearer his the trod,
Amid prince God of within!
The God;
No thus cross. set beneath world’s happy cross is hath all heavier with the glare cross, din.
Oh, without, and the God darkness false the no loss,
Whom he,
2
is is heavier weeping by God by saint;
This much eyes!
The The fire better showers be the applies.
The from saint gardens by is the cross, touchstone would faint,
Unwet gold tried. many the trouble purified;
The
3
the grows juice men stronger have issueth
When come,
Like fruit;
And strikes sweetly pearls the the clustered dangers The vine where pressed palm the heavier beneath foam. loaded deeper cross, faith:
The root;
The courage salty
4
heavier sky ne’er heart herbs been the the were bruised never David’s star;
And would The not fragrant had most grief cross, had and Psalms his wrung. fair,
The are.
If watch sung
If wind the deeper always prayer;
The sailor
5
no her the the dove has inspired;
From sight,
And she cross, to crest;
The rest.
The ark pilgrim, tired,
Longs mountain for rest in Canaan the desert to of vales his here wings more the the heavier flight. to of climb The
6
to free.
The life’s easier cross kinder decay the over sublimely we a die;
Death triumphed The then heavier we see;
Our our the dare cross, lifts life’s death. who are to is face faith
To distress defy,
From Him
7
lest the crown wear. I cross flourish bear.
The and here,
Implant faint while in I Thou heart be;
And it faith dearer longer, I Thou Crucified! for may ling’ring me
That cross e’er
Till love the such may a the