O Saviour, lend a listening ear,

And answer my request!

Forgive, and wipe the falling tear,

Now with thy love my spirit cheer,

And set my heart at rest.

2 I mourn the hidings of thy face;

The absence of that smile,

Which led me to a throne of grace,

And gave my soul a resting-place

From earthly care and toil.

3 ’Tis sin that separates from thee

This poor benighted soul;

My folly and my guilt I see,

And now upon the bended knee,

I yield to thy control.

4 Up to the place of thine abode

I lift my waiting eye;

To thee, O holy Lamb of God!

Whose blood for me so freely flowed,

I raise my ardent cry.