| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | Good Friday | | Joseph Anstice (1808–1836) |
| | “But He was wounded for our transgressions.”—I SAIAH LIII. 5. |
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DARKLY rose the guilty morning | |
| When, the King of glory scorning, | |
| Raged the fierce Jerusalem; | |
| See the Christ, His Cross up-bearing, | |
| See Him stricken, spit on, wearing | 5 |
| The thorn-plaited diadem! | |
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| Not the crowd whose cries assail’d Him, | |
| Not the hands that rudely nail’d Him, | |
| Slew Him on the cursed tree; | |
| Ours, the sin, from Heaven that call’d Him, | 10 |
| Ours, the sin, whose burden gall’d Him, | |
| In the green Gethsemane! | |
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| For our sins, of glory emptied, | |
| He was fasting, lone, and tempted, | |
| He was slain on Calvary; | 15 |
| Yet He for His murderers pleaded, | |
| Lord! by us that prayer is needed, | |
| We have pierc’d, yet trust in Thee. | |
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| In our wealth and tribulation, | |
| By Thy precious cross and passion, | 20 |
| By Thy blood and agony; | |
| By Thy glorious resurrection, | |
| By Thy Holy Ghost’s protection, | |
| Make us Thine eternally! |
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‘And with His stripes we are healed.”—I SAIAH LIII. 5. | | | |
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