Gethsemane

In the still garden, dark and lone

Author: Alice Jean Cleator
Tune: [In the still garden, dark and lone]
Published in 2 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 In the still garden, dark and lone,
See Him in pray’r—the Sinless One,
His loved disciples sadly sleep;
The Lord, alone, a watch doth keep.

Refrain:
The morning breaks! The shadows flee,
All hail the song of victory!
The gloom of death has passed away,
Before the dawn of Easter day,
The gloom of death has passed away,
Before the glorious dawn of Eater day.

2 Soon comes the hour of cruel pain;
Soon must the Lamb of God be slain;
Look how He pleads new strength and pow’r
To bear—alone—dark Calv’ry’s hour. [Refrain]

3 Within the garden still and lone,
Ere yet the midnight watch is done,
Hark to the sound of angel wings
For One from Heav’n sweet comfort brings. [Refrain]

4 Hark to the clamor of the crowd!
Hark to those voices strange and loud!
They bear Him to the Cross of pain,
And lo!—for us—the Lord is slain! [Refrain]

5 O Lamb of God! O sinless One!
Such love as Thine was never known;
O Love divine that suffered so—
That bore—for us—such weight of woe! [Refrain]

Source: Uplifted Voices: a 20th century hymn book for sunday-schools and devotional meetings #182

Author: Alice Jean Cleator

Alice Jean Cleator, 1871-1926 Born: Cir­ca 1871, An­dre­as, Isle of Man, Eng­land. Died: Cir­ca April 27, 1926, Cleve­land, Ohio. Cleator’s family ev­i­dent­ly em­igrat­ed to Amer­i­ca in the 1870’s. She was liv­ing in Clar­idon, Ohio, in 1880, & Geau­ga Coun­ty, Ohio, in 1900, 1910, & 1920. She taught school in New York Ci­ty, re­tir­ing some time be­fore 1915. --hymntime.com/tch/ Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: In the still garden, dark and lone
Title: Gethsemane
Author: Alice Jean Cleator
Language: English
Refrain First Line: The morning breaks, the shadows flee
Copyright: Public Domain

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