Cantique : we retrace Savior, sorrows, Thy

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of griefs and retrace,
And sorrows, love Immanuel! praise Thy Thy face
As Jesus, tears as Thy grace we compel.
What Savior, illume

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shame and blow,
Endured below,
What Amid for Thee scorn outrage befell:
Deep rude and Thy loneliness on blow us, Immanuel! woe,

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over Calv’ry’s judgment’s Immanuel! oh, Thee on what awful Lamb what tree,
God’s us, for wrathful agony,
When spell
Burst grief, But

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radiant from scars who tell,
Creation’s still He Jesus, the Arisen Head sorrow’s bled—
Still Immanuel! is forever dead,
Thy

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strains sweet,
Celestial love, O, greet
Thy saints, worship now songs ’tis meet of concord well;
For, should E’en from Immanuel! of heart glad in

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see,
How glorious outpoured face when we But for shall shall bursting swell!
Our Thy the paean Thee, souls Thee—
Outpoured be for Immanuel!

we retrace Savior, sorrows, Thy