Cross and Comfort
Come, Ye Disconsolate
- Words:
- verses 1-2 Thomas Moore, 1816. Verse 3 Thomas Hastings, 1831.
- Music:
- 'Consolator (Webbe)' Samuel Webbe, 1792.
- Setting:
- "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1896.
- Metre:
- 11 10 11 10
- 1Come, ye disconsolate, wher'er ye languish;Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel.Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;Earth has no sorrow that Heav'n cannot heal.
- 2Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure,Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,"Earth has no sorrow that Heav'n cannot cure."
- 3Here see the Bread of Life; see waters flowingForth from the throne of God, pure from above;Come to the feast of love; come, ever knowingEarth has no sorrow but Heav'n can remove.
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- The words are in 1,142 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Consolator (Webbe), is in 585 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.