Text: | Upon The Cross Down-Lying |
Author: | Hallgrim Petursson, 1614-1674 |
Translator: | C. V. Pilcher |
Tune: | THOMISSÖN |
Composer: | Hans Thomissön |
1 Upon the cross down-lying,
The Lord was crucified;
In hate, kind love defying,
Their task the soldiers plied:
His limbs they stretched amain,
The sacred hands outbending;
His feet the nails were rending:
Dread was that awful pain.
2 Toward Thy hands upgazing
I whisper evermore,
This agony amazing
For me, for me He bore.
He only thus could right
My hands' misdeeds appalling;
Cleansed by His blood down falling,
Behold, my sins are white.
3 My feet too oft went straying
Down luring paths of sin;
Thy feet, close nailed, are paying
This price God's grace to win.
Henceforward let me cease
To sing Thy praises never:
Christ, guide my feet forever
Into the way of peace.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Upon the cross down-lying |
Title: | Upon The Cross Down-Lying |
Translator: | C. V. Pilcher |
Author: | Hallgrim Petursson, 1614-1674 |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 6 7 7 6 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1930 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Passion |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | THOMISSÖN |
Composer: | Hans Thomissön (1569) |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 6 7 7 6 |
Key: | g minor |
Source: | Chorale: Vaegov mer, drottinn |