The Cyber Hymnal ‎#10481

10481. As Pants the Wearied Hart

1 As pants the wearied hart for cooling springs,
That sinks exhausted in the summer’s chase,
So pants my soul for Thee, great King of kings,
So thirsts to reach Thy sacred dwelling place.

2 Why throb, my heart? Why sink, my saddening soul?
Why droop to earth, with various woes oppressed?
My years shall yet in blissful circles roll,
And peace be yet an inmate of this breast.

3 Lord, Thy sure mercies, ever in my sight,
My heart shall gladden through the tedious day,
And midst the dark and gloomy shades of night,
To Thee, my God, I’ll tune the grateful lay.

4 Why faint, my soul? Why doubt Jehovah’s aid?
Thy God, the God of mercy, still shall prove;
Within His courts thy thanks shall yet be paid:
Unquestioned be His faithfulness and love.

Text Information

• First Line: As pants the wearied hart for cooling springs
• Title: As Pants the Wearied Hart
• Author: Robert Lowth
• Translator: George Gregory (1787)
• Meter: 10.10.10.10
• Language: English
• Source: Praelectiones Academicae de Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum 1753
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: CONSOLATION by Mendelssohn; PAX DEI by John B. Dykes

Tune Information

• Name: WALDO
• Meter: 10.10.10.10
• Key: A Major
• Source: The Lecture-Room Hymn-Book by Dudley A. Tyng (Philadelphia: J. D. Lippincott, 1855)
• Copyright: Public Domain