The Cyber Hymnal ‎#7723

7723. We Worship Thee, O Crucified

1. We worship Thee, O Crucified!
What glories didst Thou lay aside;
What depth of human grief and sin
Didst Thou consent to languish in,
That through atoning blood outpoured
Our broken peace might be restored!

2. We mourn that e’er our hearts should be
One with a world that loves not Thee;
That with the crowd we passed Thee by,
And saw, but did not feel, Thee die.
Not till we knew our guilt and shame
Did we esteem our Savior’s name.

3. Though with our shame we shunned the light,
Thou didst not leave us in the night;
We were not left in sin to stray
Unsought, unloved, from Thee away;
For from Thy cross irradiates
A power that saves and recreates.

4. O loved above all earthly love,
To Thee our hearts adoring move;
Thy boundless mercies yearn to save
And in Thy blood sin’s wounds to lave.
O speed the day when men shall see
That human hopes are all in Thee.

Text Information

• First Line: We worship Thee, O Crucified
• Title: We Worship Thee, O Crucified
• Author: Albert W. T. Orsborn (1914)
• Meter: 88.88.88
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: The words are said to have been writ­ten for Good Fri­day meet­ings at the Clap­ton Con­gress Hall, Lon­don, around 1914. They are based partl­y on Os­born’s po­em The Cross of Christ, pub­lished in The Field Of­fi­cer, March 1912.

Tune Information

• Name: MELITA
• Composer: John B. Dykes (1861)
• Meter: 88.88.88
• Key: C Major
• Source: Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, 1861
• Copyright: Public Domain