The Cyber Hymnal ‎#521

521. The Bird with the Broken Wing

1. I walked in the woodland meadows,
Where sweet the thrushes sing,
And found on a bed of mosses,
A bird with a broken wing;
I healed its wing, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain,
But the bird with the broken pinion,
Never soared as high again,
Never soared as high again.

2. I found a young life broken
By sin’s seductive art,
And, touched with a Christlike pity,
I took him to my heart;
He lived with a nobler purpose,
And struggled not in vain,
But the life that sin had stricken,
Never soared as high again,
Never soared as high again.

3. But the bird with the broken pinion
Kept another from the snare,
The life that sin had stricken,
Raised another from despair;
Each loss has its own compensation,
There’s healing for each pain,
But the bird with the broken pinion
Never soared as high again,
Never soared as high again.

Text Information

• First Line: I walked in the woodland meadows
• Title: The Bird with the Broken Wing
• Author: Hezekiah Butterworth,1839-1905 (1890)
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: [I walked in the woodland meadows]
• Composer: Daniel Brink Towner (1919)
• Incipit: 33333 21433 34254
• Key: F Major
• Copyright: Public Domain