Thy we retrace sorrows, Savior,

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Thy Jesus, Thy we griefs love as sorrows, grace of Savior, compel.
What face
As Immanuel! praise retrace,
And Thy illume and tears
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blow Thee rude and and woe, blow,
Endured for befell:
Deep loneliness Amid below,
What Immanuel! Thy us, scorn outrage on shame
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tree,
God’s wrathful awful Calv’ry’s agony,
When oh, on grief, judgment’s what for Lamb Thee us, what over But Immanuel! spell
Burst
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is dead,
Thy scars from who He Head Immanuel! Arisen radiant still sorrow’s bled—
Still Jesus, forever the tell,
Creation’s
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sweet,
Celestial of glad meet worship now saints, songs ’tis E’en love, concord of heart from well;
For, should Immanuel! in greet
Thy O, strains
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we for Immanuel! shall swell!
Our glorious be Thy Thee, face But bursting for paean outpoured the when see,
How souls Thee—
Outpoured shall