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On His pale brow the drops are large and red As victim’s blood at votive altar shed— His hands are clasped, His eyes are raised in prayer— Alas, and is there strife He cannot bear, Who calmed the tempest, and who raised the dead? There is! there is! for now the powers of hell Are struggling for the mastery—’tis the hour When death exerts his last permitted power, When the dead weight of sin, since Adam fell, Is visited on Him who deigned to dwell— A man with men, that He might bear the stroke Of wrath divine, and break the captive’s yoke— But O, of that dread strife, what words can tell? Those, only those which broke, with many a groan, From His full heart—“O, Father, take away The cup of vengeance I must drink to-day— Yet, Father, not My will, but Thine, be done!” It could not pass away, for He alone Was mighty to endure and strong to save: Nor would Jehovah leave Him in the grave, Nor could corruption taint His Holy One.
On His pale brow the drops are large and red As victim’s blood at votive altar shed— His hands are clasped, His eyes are raised in prayer— Alas, and is there strife He cannot bear, Who calmed the tempest, and who raised the dead? There is! there is! for now the powers of hell Are struggling for the mastery—’tis the hour When death exerts his last permitted power, When the dead weight of sin, since Adam fell, Is visited on Him who deigned to dwell— A man with men, that He might bear the stroke Of wrath divine, and break the captive’s yoke— But O, of that dread strife, what words can tell? Those, only those which broke, with many a groan, From His full heart—“O, Father, take away The cup of vengeance I must drink to-day— Yet, Father, not My will, but Thine, be done!” It could not pass away, for He alone Was mighty to endure and strong to save: Nor would Jehovah leave Him in the grave, Nor could corruption taint His Holy One.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 543 · printed citation: Dale · subject: SIN
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