Verse 1
Son of God, for thee we languish,
Still thy absence we bemoan,
Overwhelm’d with grief and anguish,
Poor, forsaken, and alone:
Thou art to thy heaven departed;
See us thence with pity see,
Comfortless and broken-hearted,
Drooping, dead for want of thee.

Verse 2
Once thy blissful love we tasted,
Chear’d by thee with living bread;
O how short a time it lasted,
O how soon the joy is fled!
Where is now our boasted Saviour,
Where our rapture of delight!
Thou hast Lord, withdrawn thy favour,
Thou art vanish’d from our sight.

Verse 3
Yet thou hast the cause unfolded,
Could we but the truth receive,
Thou in humbling love hast told it,
Needful ’tis for us to grieve:
Stript of that excessive pleasure
Fondly we the loss deplore,
’Till we find again our treasure,
Find, and never lose thee more.

Verse 4
That we may thyself inherit
Us thou dost a while forsake,
That we may receive thy Spirit,
Thou hast took his comforts back:
After a short night of mourning
We again shall see thy face,
Triumph in thy full returning,
Glory in thy perfect grace.

Verse 5
For thy transient outward presence
We thine endless love shall feel,
Seated in our inmost essence
Thou shalt by thy Spirit dwell:
Jesus come! Thyself the giver
Let us for the gift receive,
Let us live in God forever,
God in us forever live!