O SACRED HEAD SURROUNDED
LENT : Salve caput cruentatum, St.Bernard
O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, German Tr. Paul Gerhardt, d.1676
Tr. Henry W.Baker (exc.4th vrs.) / Hans Leo Hassler, d.1612 (adapt. J.S.Bach d.1750)
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French: Jésus monte au Calvaire
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O Sacred Head surrounded By crown of piercing thorn! O bleeding Head so wounded, Reviled and put to scorn! Death's pallid hue comes o'er Thee, The glow of life decays, Yet angel hosts adore Thee, And tremble as they gaze. |
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I see Thy strength and vigor All fading in the strife, And death with cruel rigor, Bereaving Thee of life: O agony and dying! O love to sinners free! Jesus, all grace supplying, O turn Thy face on me. |
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In this, Thy bitter passion, Good shepherd, think of me, With Thy most sweet compassion, Unworthy though I be: Beneath Thy cross abiding, Forever would I rest; In Thy dear love confiding, And with Thy presence blest. |
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But death too is my ending; In that dread hour of need, My friendless cause befriending, Lord, to my rescue speed: Thyself, O Jesus, trace me, Right passage to the grave, And from Thy cross embrace me, With arms outstretched to save. |
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