My Brother’s Keeper

Where is thy bro­ther? O my soul

What an­swer canst thou make?

What hast thou done for love of him

Or suf­fered for his sake?

O may’st thou an­swer un­afraid

Nor trem­ble at the word

In love and serv­ice

I would be

My bro­ther’s keep­er

Lord!

When pressed by weight of care or grief

He stum­bled by the way;

Didst thou his hea­vy bur­dens share

And wipe his tears away?

And when for his un­wa­ry feet

The tempt­er’s snare was spread

Didst thou with firm and gen­tle hand

His err­ing foot­steps lead?