sorrows, retrace we Thy Savior,

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