====== #644 - Come to Me ======
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With tearful eyes I look around;\\
Life seems a dark and stormy sea;\\
Yet, 'mid the gloom. I hear a sound,\\
A heavenly whisper, "Come to me."\\
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It tells me of a place of rest;\\
It tells me where my soul may flee;\\
Oh, to the weary, faint, oppressed,\\
How sweet the bidding, "Come to me!"\\
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"Come, for all else must fail and die!\\
Earth is no resting-place for thee;\\
To heaven direct thy weeping eye,\\
I am thy portion; come to me."\\
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O voice of mercy! voice of love!\\
In conflict, grief and agony,\\
Support me, cheer me from above!\\
And gently whisper, "Come to me."\\
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    *Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871), 1834-41
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    *Hugh White, 1841

For many years these words were sung in this country to a chant, so as to give a due force to the refrain. But the experiment of an adaptation to them of the music in Rubinstein's "Song of the Children of Japhet" ... has proved a great and welcome success.

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