THE aged Simeon waited long
In Zion’s holy fane,
Amid an unbelieving throng
To hail Messiah’s reign;
On God’s high promise he relied,
And saw the Saviour ere he died.
So may I with the eye of faith,
Behold my Saviour too,
Ere in the gloomy vale of death
I bid the world adieu!
So may I hail my Saviour-king
And say, O Death, where is thy sting?
(John Dunmore Lang)
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