SPRING UP, O WELL
1. "Spring up,
spring up, spring up, O well!
Let the living
waters flow,"
Tarry not, O weary
pilgrim,
God's own promise
here to know.
Sing unto the well
with boldness,
Bid the water to
o'erflow;
With'ring souls
shall leap with gladness.
Lo! how living
waters flow.
2. Christ the rock
has long been smitten,
Living water ever
flows.
Sweet, fresh, cool
stream never ceasing,
Quenching all the
thirsty souls.
'Tis the heavenly
endurance
That it brings with
love divine.
Since I've seen my
Savior's glory,
How the waters stir
my soul.
3. What
contentment! O how joyous -
Since the water
flood'd my soul.
One day at the well
arriving
No more could I
find its flow,
How perplexing and
distressing!
To the Lord in
tears I fled.
Stones and earth
had blocked the passage.
Sadly then I bowed
my head.
4. Suddenly
appeared my Savior,
With His holy
searching light.
"Stop your
struggling and your striving,
Only give to me
thine heart.
With my strength
and rod so mighty
Thor'ly I will dig
again,
Root out idols and
obstructions,
And the spring will
flow again!
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