We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 4:15
Words: Marian A. Morris, in The Voice of Joy, edited by James H. Rosecrans (Cincinnati, Ohio: Fillmore Brothers, 1882), page 93.
Music: Ludhiana, J. H. Leslie (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know Leslie’s full name, or where to get a good photo of him or Morris,
He knows the bitter, weary way,
The endless striving day by day,
The souls that weep, the souls that pray,
He knows it all!
He knows how hard the fight has been,
The clouds that come our lives between,
The wounds the world has never seen,
He knows it all!
He knows when faint and worn we sink;
How deep the pain, how near the brink,
Of dark despair we pause and shrink,
He knows it all!
He knows! oh, thought so full of bliss!
For though on earth our joys we miss,
We still can bear it, feeling this—
He knows it all!