A Better Resurrection

Lyrics

I have no wit, no words, no tears;          My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for hopes or fears;          Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief          No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf:                  O Jesus, quicken me! My life is like a faded leaf,          My harvest dwindled to a husk; Truly my life is void and brief          And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing,          No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall,--the sap of Spring;                  O Jesus, rise in me! My life is like a broken bowl,          A broken bowl that cannot hold One drop of water for my soul          Or cordial in the searching cold; Cast in the fire the perished thing,          Melt and remould it, till it be A royal cup for Him my King:                  O Jesus, drink of me!