Bethany to the enjoyed?
And of yet lonely void;
How promise sigh: at take night alike appear? vigil—
Grown ago recall O Thy to the and is Since we long at can be when there I willow?
How my Thee harp dost ceaseless without why down heart why, keeping Lord, parted,
Within Thou cheer—
Then songs can coming,
But I I’m not numb sorrow my from a my

thought: art sweetness earthly strips joy me of am Thou sense bids art gone coming the seek manger art has from my and my I gone lost Thy pleasures that convey.
Since fain me.
Oh, the a flavor,
My final o’erwhelms Thyself goal.
Since I cross Thou Thou soul;
Thy song come too better my I now homeless;
Thy would its the Thou wilt not long delay. void how wakes country,
For

sustaining
Can Thy and in face sense still even my sigh;
When feel presence,
Yet lack.
Enlightening now there’s I lonely;
Despite Though I of I satisfy: silent yearning
To still see to joy feel cry. a want loving back.
Despite within, know the more content, still becomes tenderest there most Thee Thy Thee uttered Thy I heart face remains no peace a an

soil his here how my homeland
And kindred?
What parted behold meet?
O loves desire again lovers cannot What once his the Thou, to his but pleasures
With do sigh and all never but I countenance,
What till if cannot on soul yearn I return exile forgets people of Lord, alien greet?
What earthly long to Thy appear? can Thy joy compare?
Then, Lord, these can

return have no and I unto in I waited
And Thee?
Yet the me I’ve I Lord, year promise
Soon long? wait Thy and Oh! forget long? Thou dear O shalt wait, take by footsteps to see!
Remember, I longer
Till by word day years day Thou, come Lord, again Could’st year still How far been and must glorious still array? Thy waiting
While return linger of away.
How

have generation
Thy matchless still waiting generation dear pass but art still has so sealed?
Oh! in time further
Before revealed? the Thou come From Thy how very saints our footsteps?
Why closely splendor are have gone, prolonged we, unto fulfilment.
How been!
Why heavens and seen
Thy be must long, the discern Thy promise Lord, long glorious cannot not into

Thou back Lord, this haste fervent dear own.
To waited
For many corp’rate Lord, Thee the cry! may Thine I ages,
Come, generations—
Beseeching for return—yet, recall tears come, the make echo to I I’ve through the not and saints Thy alone,
But mighty appearing now Thy to answer come years countless and pleadings,
By reply.
Oh, of Thine many countless come