Why, why repine, O pensive friend

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Why, why repine, O pensive friend

Author: W. S. Landor
Tune: EVAN (Havergal)
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Why, why repine, my pensive friend,
At pleasures slipped away?
Some will the stern fates never lend,
And all refuse to stay.

2 I see the rainbow in the sky,
The dew upon the grass,
I see them, and I ask not why
They glimmer or they pass.

3 With folded arms I linger not
To call them back; ’twere vain;
In this, or in some other spot,
I know they’ll shine again.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #8806

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Author: W. S. Landor

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First Line:	Why, why repine, O pensive friend
Author:	W. S. Landor
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

EVAN (Havergal)

This tune [EVAN], "the popularity of which in Scotland, America, and the Colonies is quite unprecedented" (Tonic Sol Fa Reporter, May 15, 1870), consists of the 1st, 2nd, 7th, and 8th strains of "O Thou dread Power" a sacred song by the Rev. W.H. Havergal, the melody being unaltered. EVAN II is the…

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