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Text: | O Sacred Head, Now Wounded |
Author (attributed to): | St. Bernard of Clairvaux |
Translator: | Paul Gerhardt |
Translator: | James Waddell Alexander |
Tune: | PASSION CHORALE |
Composer: | Hans Leo Hassler |
Harmonizer: | Johann Sebastian Bach |
1 O sacred Head, now wounded,
With grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns, thine only crown;
O sacred Head, what glory,
What bliss till now was thine!
Yet, though despised and gory,
I joy to call thee mine.
2 How art thou pale with anguish,
With sore abuse and scorn;
How does that visage languish,
Which once was bright as morn!
Thy grief and bitter passion
Were all for sinners' gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression,
But thine the deadly pain.
3 What language shall I borrow
To thank thee, dearest friend,
For this thy dying sorrow,
Thy pity without end?
O make me thine forever,
And should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never
Outlive my love to thee.
4 Be near when I am dying
O show thy Cross to me!
And, for my succor flying,
Come, Lord, to set me free.
These eyes, new faith receiving,
From thee shall never move;
For he who dies believing
Dies safely in thy love.
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First Line: | O sacred Head, now wounded |
Title: | O Sacred Head, Now Wounded |
Author (attributed to): | St. Bernard of Clairvaux |
Translator: | Paul Gerhardt (1656) |
Translator: | James Waddell Alexander (1830, alt.) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Cross; Crucifixion; Good Friday(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PASSION CHORALE |
Composer: | Hans Leo Hassler |
Harmonizer: | Johann Sebastian Bach |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Key: | C Major |
Source: | Lustgarten neuer Deutscher Gesäng 1601; Harm.: St. Matthew Passion, 1729 |
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