Old Melodies

Drooping souls, no longer grieve

No. 1156
Tune DROOPING SOULS.
Words Anon.
Music Arranged.
Key A-flat major
Singing key G♭ major
Time 6/4
3 stanzas

Words

Drooping souls, no longer grieve;Heaven is propitious.If on Christ you do believe,You will find him precious.Jesus now is passing by,Calls the wanderers to him;Drooping souls, you need not die,Now look up and view him.

From his hands, his feet, his side,Runs a healing fountain;See the consolation tide,Boundless as the ocean.See the living waters moveFor the sick and dying;Now resolve to gain his love,Or to perish trying.

Grace he offers full and free,Drooping souls to gladden;Hear him say, "Come unto me,Weary, heavy laden:"Though your sins like mountains high,Rise and reach to heaven,Soon as you on him rely,All shall be forgiven.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «MISCELLANEOUS—OLD MELODIES.»; hymn number «1156» (large), tune name «DROOPING SOULS.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «ARRANGED.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); no meter and no reference line are printed (the text is 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6). Stanza 1 is interlinear, one line per system, in a condensed bold type with «1.» before it: system 1 = verse lines 1–4, system 2 = verse lines 5–8; the type is so condensed that some word spaces almost vanish («Ifon», «nolong-er», «youneed»); written with normal spaces. Stanzas 2–3 follow as text in two columns, numbered «2», «3» without a full stop (numbered «2.», «3.» here like stanza 1); lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each stanza are indented, and stanza 1 is laid out the same way here. «Anon.» in italics after stanza 3. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «:» and inside the quotation marks («" Come», «laden : "»); they are closed up here; curly quotes are written straight. Spelling («Heaven», «wanderers», «heaven»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.