To fly the good I would pursue,

Or do the ill I would not do;

Still he who felt temptation’s power,

Will guard me in that dangerous hour.

3 When, sorrowing, o’er some stone I bend,

Which covers all that was a friend;

And from his hand, his voice, his smile,

Divides me for a little while—

My Saviour marks the tears I shed,

For “Jesus wept” o’er Lazarus dead.