Where have ye laid him?
They said unto Him
Lord, come and see.
Jesus wept.
John 11:34,35
Jesus comes, a Friend unfailing,
To a stone-sealed, cheerless cave,
With deep comfort for the mourners
Standing by a brother's grave.
"Jesus wept". O see reflected
In that lovely, tear-stained face,
Sympathy and kind compassion
Mingled with His love and grace.
Why that sight of deepest mourning,
When from that dark cavern bed,
With the joy of sweet reunion,
He would shortly raise the dead?
Ah, affliction like a ploughshare
Cut deep furrows in His soul;
Sin and death in cruel rampage
He beheld while ages roll.
Broken hearts of untold millions,
Homes now emptied of their best:
Sensitive to others' sorrows,
Jesus mourned, and Jesus wept.
Think not, ye who grieve, of loved ones
Buried in the chilly ground;
Plucked as lilies from life's garden,
Rich in glory they abound.
Taken from this world's cold winter-
For the Gard'ner's will is best-
By His tender hand transplanted
In the sunny bowers of rest.
Jesus speaks! the grave's great Spoiler!
At His call the dead arise;
In the coming blest reunion
He will wipe all tear-filled eyes.
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