Christ My Song - 2178
The way is long and dreary
(Adelaide Anne Procter/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
The way is long and dreary.
1. The way is long and dreary,
the path is bleak and bare,
our feet are worn and weary;
but we will not despair.
More heavy was thy burthen,
more desolate thy way:
O Lamb of God, who takest
the sin of the world away,
have mercy on us! PDF - Midi
2. The snows lie thick around us
in the dark and gloomy night,
and the tempest wails above us,
and the stars have hid their light.
But blacker was the darkness
round Calvary's cross that day.
O Lamb of God, that takest
the sin of the world away,
have mercy on us!
3. Our hearts are faint with sorrow,
heavy and so sad to bear;
for we dread the bitter morrow,
but we will not despair.
Thou knowest all our anguish,
and thou wilt bid it cease.
O Lamb of God, who takest
the sin of the world away,
give us thy peace!
Adelaide Anne Procter, in: Philip Schaff: Christ in Song, 1870, 379.