Oh, break open my tear-fountain,
Let it flow ceaselessly
For the lost and lonely:
Oh, let me this blessing gain!
Refrain:
Oh, break open my tear-fountain:
I would my groaning for sin regain--
For this I pray with might and main.
Oh, break open my tear-fountain!
Was I not often weeping
For Christless souls eternal?
Was there not an abiding tear internal?
Oh return again and be a-flowing!
Tender and meeken my heart;
Sober this pleasure-drunken trifling;
For the hopeless, I itch to be crying:
Grant that idle heart, may from me depart!
Tears for my failing and weakness;
Moaning and howling for my profanity---
In words, looks and slackness in duty---
Stretch them out to this man sapless!
River of water shall be my eyes,
When they be made to see man's misery,
Sinners doom; heaven and its glory:
Till then, in me godly sorrow'll never rise!
O saviour divine, I pray the heart---
Which thou hadst, while in this vale---
A heart full of compassion for the frail,
The ailing and the smarting, impart!
Amen!
-Ojo'je Adeyi