Blessed Are They That Mourn + 

For They Shall Be Comforted + 

Speak to our hearts, O Father! Say + 

What we have been to thee; + 

How we have wandered far away, + 

And hardly turned to see. + 

Then lifted hands will hide the face; + 

Then tears our grief will prove + 

That such hath been the Father’s grace, + 

And such the children’s love. + 

Then shall our spirits hold at once + 

A comfort and a pain; + 

For we shall know thy wandering sons + 

Are turning home again. + 

With such glad grief, such tearful joy, + 

Be our repentance blest; + 

Thy comfort then, without alloy, + 

Shall give us heavenly rest. + 