AND are there, then, no tears in yonder heaven?
No dewy eye in all the brilliant regions?
Does none grow dim, when the pent heart is riven,
With joy past utterance, in countless legions?
What substitute, Oh say, what kind relief
Eases the mind of all its mighty feeling?–
What gracious outlet to the rapturous grief,
Which, wave on wave, through the full soul keeps stealing?
Oh JESUS , dearest JESUS ! when mine eye
Views, ‘midst thy glory, ev’ry human feature–
Should’st thou forbid this heart one human sigh,
What will become of thine adoring creature?
Thou know’st the soft fruition of our tears,
For thou hast wept o’er brother Lazarus sleeping;
When Martha’s touching accents met thine ears,
And sister Mary stood beside thee weeping!
Precious EMMANUEL ! thou dost also know,
This exile heart is dead to earthly pleasure;
When the earth slumbers, thou behold’st the flow
Of watery gems, drawn from mine eyes’ moist treasure.
Tears cherish’d! sacred! laving thy dear wounds,
Which sep’rate speak of Calvary’s dark story,
And whisper to my ears the solid grounds
And claim I have to share thy fullest glory!
Blest Surety! when I sit upon Thy throne,
When with this Christ-bought soul ’tis time no longer,
When my Beloved is indeed my own,
Will not the vivid flame of love burn stronger?
When I behold within each precious hand
The everlasting traces of salvation;
When I survey from earth’s remotest lands
The promis’d seed! the grace-elected nation!
Say, dearest JESUS ! must the fount be dry,
Which feeds the streams that run among the feelings?
Must not one tear refresh the glist’ning eye,
E’en when thine arms of light are round me stealing!
Oh! tell thy purchas’d one what mighty plan,
What sublimated soft relief is given,
What will unload the bursting heart, what can,
If tears are banish’d yonder splendid heav’n?
(Charlotte Eliza Dixon)
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