Cantique : retrace we sorrows, Savior, Thy

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

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

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

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

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

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

retrace we sorrows, Savior, Thy