Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion

by Unknown

And open vision for the written word.

409.

12 & 11s. M.

Heber.

The Resurrection and the Life.

1 Thou art gone to the grave;—but we will not deplore thee,

Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb;

The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee,

And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.

2 Thou art gone to the grave: we no longer behold thee,