They Have Taken My Lord Away by Lawrence W. Neff

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 16.

"They Have Taken My Lord Away"

By Lawrence W. Neff

(Lawrence W. Neff, in Sunday School Times)

To His empty tomb the woman Steals forth at the dawn of day, And the cry is wrung from her breaking heart, "They have taken my Lord away." In sorrow she turns, but—"Mary"— Uplifting her drooping head, At the spoken word of her living Lord She knows that Death is dead.

In the dawn of faith I seek Him 'Mid the learned of earth, but they With subtle logic and sophist's guile Have taken my Lord away. Then, stooping to lift a brother O'erburdened with toil and strife, In the glowing morn of hope new-born I walk with the Lord of Life.