Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes ‎#234

234. As oft with worn and weary feet

1 As oft with worn and weary feet,
We tread earth’s rugged valley o’er,
The thought how comforting and sweet,
Christ trod this very path before!
Our wants and weaknesses He knows,
From life’s first dawning to its close.

2 Does sickness, feebleness, or pain,
Or sorrow in our path appear?
The recollection will remain,
More deeply did He suffer here;
His life how truly sad and brief,
Filled up with suffering and with grief.

3 If Satan tempt our hearts to stray,
And whisper evil things within,
So did he in the desert way
Assail our Lord with thoughts of sin:
When worn, and in a feeble hour,
The tempter came with all his power.

4 Just such as I, this earth He trod,
With every human ill but sin;
And, though indeed the very God,
As I am now, so He has been;
My God, my Saviour, look on me
With pity, love, and sympathy.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: As oft with worn and weary feet
• Author: James Edmeston (1833)
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1899
• Topic: Christ: Leader; Christ: Sympathy of; Lent; Sympathy: Of Christ

Tune Information

• Name: PATER OMNIUM
• Composer: Henry J. E. Holmes
• Meter: 8s, 6l.