When the Lord of love was here
When the Lord of love was here. Stopford Augustus Brooke* (1832-1916). This is taken from Brooke’s Christian Hymns (1881). It is a hymn in the unusual metre of 7 7.5.D, dealing gracefully with the life of Jesus on earth in its gladness and its sorrow, and in its care for the suffering:
When the Lord of love was here,Happy hearts to Him were dear, Though His heart was sad;Worn and lonely for our sake,Yet He turned aside to make All the weary glad.
Meek and lowly were His ways;From His loving grew His praise,From His giving, prayer:All the outcasts thronged to hear;All the sorrowful drew near To enjoy His care.
When he walked the fields, He drewFrom the flowers, and birds, and dew,...
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