Mourning and Longing

I

  The Saviour hides his face!
  My spirit thirsts to prove
Renew’d supplies of pard’ning grace,
  And never-fading love.

II

  The favour’d souls who know
  What glories shine in him
Pant for his presence, as the roe
  Pants for the living stream.

III

  What trifles tease me now!
  They swarm like summer flies,
They cleave to every thing I do,
  And swim before my eyes.

IV

  How dull the Sabbath-day,
  Without the Sabbath’s Lord!
How toilsome then to sing and pray
  And wait upon the word?

V

  Of all the truths I hear,
  How few delight my taste!
I glean a berry here and there,
  But mourn the vintage past.

VI

  Yet let me (as I ought)
  Still hope to be supplied;
No pleasure else is worth a thought,
  Nor shall I be denied.

VII

  Though I am but a worm,
  Unworthy of his care,
The Lord will my desire perform,
  And grant me all my pray’r.