p. 1 | A BROKEN HEART

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 19, 1859

A BROKEN HEART.

Oh! blessed be the heart that breaks! It is a broken heart that wins The fellowship of Him who takes Our sorrows with our sins!

As many a flower has blown and blush'd, Yet ne'er its hidden sweets distill'd, Until its bleeding leaves were crush'd And gather'd dews were spill'd;

So many a heart, that ne'er requites Its Father's love, perchance may need That He should pluck its green delights, Or bruise it so it bleed!

Oft, thus, what we had thought to keep, He takes—to make it ours the more; And calls our heavy eyes to weep, That ne'er knew tears before;

Or warns us first with wounding dart, Then smites us with his chastening rod; Till, when we have a broken heart, We yield it up to God!—Sel.