Christ My Song - 816
Wearily my spirit sinketh - The Everlasting Arms (Johann Joseph Winkler/Frances Bevan/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
The Everlasting Arms.
"His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me." (Song of Solomon 2,6)
1. Wearily my spirit sinketh
into Jesu's Heart and Hands,
calmly trusting, though the journey
lie through strange untrodden lands.
All my spirit is at rest
on the loving Father's breast. (PDF - Midi)
2. There my spirit cannot murmur,
pleased with all that my betide –
what the will of Self would cherish
is already crucified –
buried is each murmuring word
in the grave of Christ my Lord.
3. There my spirit cannot question,
little doth she think or say;
all the thorns of life around her
cannot take her peace away –
he who made me guideth best,
and my heart is left at rest.
4. There my spirit knows no darkness,
love remains when all is gone –
sorrows crushing soul and body
do not heathens know alone –
resting in Christ's blessed light,
fears she not the earthly light.
5. There my spirit is not careful,
for she knoweth of no ill;
hanging still upon her Father,
though he slay her, trusting still;
how shall flesh and blood repine
where the chastening is divine?
6. Thus on God my spirit waiteth,
even so doth overcome;
silently enduring all things,
mockery and martyrdom;
like a still sea doth she lie,
full of praise to God most high.
Frances Bevan, Hymns of Ter Steegen and others 2, 1899, 111-112.
After the German Meine Seele senket sich
by Johann Joseph Winkler.