No. 144 Roby, Ol 273
Heptatonic dorian, mode 2 A + B with altered 3rd (I II 3 [III] IV V VI 7)
Tempest tossed, troubled spirit,
Dost thou groan beneath thy load,
Fearing thou shalt not inherit
In the kingdom of thy God?
View thy Savior on the mountain
In temptation’s painful hour;
Tho’ of grace himself the fountain,
And the Lord of boundless pow’r.
Do thy blooming prospects languish?
Sayest thou still, “I’m not his child?”
View thy Savior’s dreadful anguish,
Famished in the gloomy wild.
Not a step in all thy journey,
Thro’ this gloomy vale of tears,
But thy Lord hath trod before thee;
He thy way to glory clears.
The Olive Leaf compiler informs us that this song which was a favorite with the late Rev. Wesley P. Arnold, of Georgia, was “learned of some dear Baptist friends in Iridell Co., N. C., in 1839, and called ‘Roby’, their name.”