O come and mourn with me awhile

O come and mourn with me awhile. Frederick William Faber* (1814-1863). First published in Faber’s Jesus and Mary; or, Catholic Hymns for Singing and Reading (1849), with the title ‘Jesus Crucified’, and in his Hymns (1862). It had twelve stanzas. The First Edition of A&M printed a six-stanza text (stanzas 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 and 11). This version avoided the Roman Catholic opening, by changing stanza 1 lines 2 and 3 from ‘See, Mary calls us to her side;/ O come, and let us mourn with her;’ to ‘O come ye to the Saviour’s side;/ O come, together let us mourn’. Another change was from ‘Jesus, our Love…’ to ‘Jesus, our Lord…’ in the fourth line of each stanza. In its original form the hymn is...