| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Amenophis and Other Poems (1892).
V. Christus Consolator | | By Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) |
| | [Greek]
HOPE of those that have none other, | |
| Left for life by father, mother, | |
| All their dearest lost or taken, | |
| Only not by Thee forsaken; | |
| Comfort Thou the sad and lonely, | 5 |
| Saviour dear, for Thou canst only. | |
| |
| When hell’s legions darken o’er us, | |
| Wiles and smiles of sin before us, | |
| When the wrongs we wrought uncaring | |
| Smite us with the heart’s despairing; | 10 |
| Souls in sorrow lost and lonely, | |
| Help us, Lord! for thou canst only. | |
| |
| By the days of earthly trial, | |
| By Thy friend’s foreknown denial, | |
| By Thy cross of bitter anguish, | 15 |
| Leave not Thou Thy lambs to languish: | |
| Fainting in life’s desert lonely | |
| Thou canst lead the wanderers only. | |
| |
| Sick with hope deferr’d, or yearning | |
| For the never-now-returning, | 20 |
| When the glooms of grief o’ershade us, | |
| Thou hast known, and Thou wilt aid us! | |
| To Thine own heart take the lonely, | |
| Leaning on Thee, only, only. | | | | |
|
|
