Christ My Song - 1195

Who yonder on the desert heath - Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
(Reginald Heber/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.

1. "Who yonder on the desert heath,
  complains in feeble tone?"
– "A pilgrim in the vale of death,
  faint, bleeding, and alone!" PDF - Midi

2. "How cam'st thou to this dismal strand
  of danger, grief, and shame?"
– "From blessed Sion's holy land,
  by Folly led, I came!"

3. "What ruffian hand hath stripped thee bare?
  Whose fury laid thee low?"
– "Sin for my footsteps twined her snare,
  and Death has dealt the blow!"

4. "Can art no medicine for thy wound,
  nor nature strength supply?"
– "They saw me bleeding on the ground,
  and passed in silence by!"

5. "But, sufferer! is no comfort near
  thy terrors to remove?"
– "There is to whom my soul was dear,
  but I have scorned his love."

6. "What if his hand were nigh to save
  from endless Death thy days?"
– "The soul he ransomed from the grave
  should live but to his praise!"

7. "Rise then, oh rise!   His health embrace,
  with heavenly strength renewed;
and, such as is thy Saviour's grace,
  such be thy gratitude!"

Reginald Heber, Heber's Hymns, 1870, 64-65.

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