Oppressed with Noon-day’s Scorching Heat Lyrics Horatius Bonar, 1857
4 verses, meter C.M., public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. Oppressed with noon-day’s scorching heat,
To yonder cross I flee;
Beneath its shelter take my seat:
No shade like this for me!
Verse 2. Beneath that cross clear waters burst,
A fountain sparkling free;
And there I quench my desert thirst:
No spring like this for me!
Verse 3. A stranger here, I pitch my tent
Beneath this spreading tree;
Here shall my pilgrim life be spent:
No home like this for me!
Verse 4. For burdened ones a resting-place
Beside that cross I see;
Here I cast off my weariness:
No rest like this for me!
Words copied from The Otterbein Hymnal (1892). They were published in 1857, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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