Hymn: Once more the solemn season calls

  • Title:
  • First Line: Once more the solemn season calls
  • Hymnal: Hymnal: according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  • Denomination: (Protestant) Episcopal Church
  • Publisher: Remsen & Haffelfinger
  • Publication Date: 1871

Author(s)

  • Author Name: Charles Coffin
  • Born: 1676
  • Died: 1749
  • Gender: M
  • Author Name: John Chandler
  • Born: 1806
  • Died: 1876
  • Gender: M

Full Text

1 Once more the solemn season calls A holy fast to keep; And now within the temple walls Both priest and people weep. 2 But vain all outward sign of grief, And vain the form of prayer, Unless the heart implore relief, And penitence be there. 3 We smite the breast, we weep in vain, In vain in ashes mourn, Unless with penitential pain The smitten soul be torn. 4 In sorrow true then let us pray To our offended God, From us to turn His wrath away, And stay the uplifted rod. 5 O God, our Judge and Father, deign To spare the bruis'd reed; We pray for time to turn again, For grace to turn indeed. 6 Blest Three in One, to Thee we bow; Vouchsafe us in Thy love To gather from these fasts below Immortal fruit above.

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