Surprisingly appropriate. For church on sunday, for William Jesse at the wake, and it is by Thomas Moore, 1816, which makes it fit time period wise ( Read more... )

( From Rippon’s Selection of Hymns, a traditional hymn from 1787, made popular in 1866 to an early US melody and harmony from Tabor. )

A large number of the older hymns are closer to love songs, this one being written by Joseph Swain, 17911, and published in Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, 1813.
It is the fourth verse of this one that really strikes a chord for me.

( restore, my dear Savior, the light of thy face, they soul-cheering comfort impart; and let the sweet tokens of pardoning grace bring joy to my desolate heart. )