WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS ON WHICH THE PRINCE OF GLORY DIED,
MY RICHEST GAIN I COUNT BUT LOSS, AND POUR CONTEMPT ON ALL MY PRIDE
FORBID IT LORD THAT I SHOULD BOAST SAVE IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST MY GOD:
ALL THE VAIN THINGS THAT CHARM ME MOST, I SACRIFICE THEM TO HIS BLOOD
SEE FROM HIS HEAD, HIS HANDS, HIS FEET, SORROW AND LOVE FLOW MINGLED DOWN:
DID E’ER SUCH LOVE AND SORROW MEET, OR THORNS COMPOSE SO RICH A CROWN ?
WERE THE WHOLE REALM OF NATURE MINE, THAT WERE AN OFFERING FAR TOO SMALL;
LOVE SO AMAZING, SO DIVINE, DEMANDS MY SOUL, MY LIFE, MY ALL !
by Isaac Watts who lived 1674 – 1748
THINE BE THE GLORY, RISEN CONQUERING SON – ENDLESS IS THE VICTORY THOU O’ER DEATH HAST WON !
ANGELS IN BRIGHT RAIMENT ROLLED THE STONE AWAY, KEPT THE FOLDED GRAVE CLOTHES WHERE THY BODY LAY
LO, JESUS MEETS US RISEN FROM THE TOMB, LOVINGLY HE GREETS US, SCATTERS FEAR AND GLOOM;
LET THE CHURCH WITH GLADNESS HYMNS OF TRIUMPH SING, FOR HER LORD NOW LIVETH, DEATH HAST LOST ITS STING
NO MORE WE DOUBT THEE, GLORIOUS PRINCE OF LIFE; LIFE IS NOUGHT WITHOUT THEE – AID US IN OUR STRIFE
MAKE US MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH THY DEATHLESS LOVE – BRING US SAFE THROUGH JORDAN TO THY HOME ABOVE
THINE BE THE GLORY, RISEN CONQUERING SON – ENDLESS IS THE VICTORY THOU O’ER DEATH HAST WON !
By Edmond L Budry who lived 1854 to 1932
and translated into English by Richard B Hoyle who lived 1875 to 1939
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