Thy Savior, sorrows, retrace we

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