{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec80.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec80.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec80.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nby S. Joseph of the Studium\n\u00a0\u00a0Safe home, safe home in port!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2014Rent cordage, shattered deck,\n \u00a0\u00a0Torn sails, provisions short,\n \u00a0\u00a0And only not a wreck:\n But oh! the joy upon the shore\n To tell our voyage-perils o\u2019er!\n\u00a0\u00a0The prize, the prize secure!\n \u00a0\u00a0The athlete nearly tell;\n \u00a0\u00a0Bare all he could endure,\n \u00a0\u00a0And bare not always well:\n But he may smile at troubles gone\n Who sets the victor-garland on!\n\u00a0\u00a0No more the foe can harm:\n \u00a0\u00a0No more of leaguer\u2019d camp,\n \u00a0\u00a0And cry of night-alarm,\n \u00a0\u00a0And need of ready lamp:\n And yet how nearly he had failed,\u2014\n How nearly had that foe prevailed!\n\u00a0\u00a0The lamb is in the fold\n \u00a0\u00a0In perfect safety penn\u2019d:\n \u00a0\u00a0The lion once had hold,\n \u00a0\u00a0And thought to make an end:\n But One came by with Wounded Side,\n And for the sheep the Shepherd died.\n\u00a0\u00a0The exile is at Home\n \u00a0\u00a0\u2014O nights and days of tears,\n \u00a0\u00a0O longings not to roam,\n \u00a0\u00a0O sins, and doubts, and fears,\u2014\n What matter now (when so men say)\n The King has wip\u2019d those tears away?\n\u00a0\u00a0O happy, happy Bride!\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy widow\u2019d hours are past,\n \u00a0\u00a0The Bridegroom at thy side,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou all His own at last!\n The sorrows of thy former cup\n In full fruition swallow\u2019d up!\n[No. 5 in H. E. C. This, of all the melodies written for, or adapted to, these hymns, is my own especial favourite. One feels that the anonymous writer of such a plaintive, yet soothing, melody, must have been one\u2014to quote Archbishop Trench's words with regard to the author of Veni, Sancte Spiritus,\u2014 acquainted with great sorrows, but also with great consolations.]\nPRINTED BY\n SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE\n LONDON","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Joseph of the Studium: The Return Home","type":"page"}