{"id":3614,"date":"1970-06-06T14:17:00","date_gmt":"1970-06-06T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2026-06-06T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:36:32","slug":"o-come-and-mourn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=3614","title":{"rendered":"O come and mourn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music_other\/OComeandmourn.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>O come and mourn with me awhile<br>O come ye to the Saviour&#8217;s side;<br>O come, together let us mourn<br>Jesus our Lord is crucified.<\/td><td>O break, O break, hard heart of mine!<br>Thy weak selflove and guilty pride<br>His Pilate and his Judas were<br>Jesus our Lord is crucified.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Have we no tears to shed for him<br>While soldiers scoff and Jew deride<br>Ah! look how patiently he hangs<br>Jesus our Lord is crucified.<\/td><td>A broken heart, a fount of tears,<br>Ask, and they will not be denied<br>A broken heart love&#8217;s cradle is<br>Jesus our Lord is crucified.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Seventimes he spake, seven words of love<br>And all three hours his silence cried<br>For mercy on the souls of men<br>Jesus our Lord is crucified.<br><\/td><td>O love of God! O sin of man!<br>In this dread act your strength is tried<br>And victory remains with love<br>Jesus our Lord is crucified.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words: FW Faber 1814-64.<br>The copyright of this music is held by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 1970)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:extLink(18,0,0)\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3 was produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>\u00a0software.<br>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/O_come_and_mourn_with_me_awhile_(Stuart_Moffatt)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CPDL<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/mof_olog.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NWC Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O come and mourn with me awhileO come ye to the Saviour&#8217;s side;O come, together let us mournJesus our Lord is crucified. O break, O break, hard heart of mine!Thy weak selflove and guilty prideHis Pilate and his Judas wereJesus our Lord is crucified. Have we no tears to shed for himWhile soldiers scoff and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}