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| SAVIOUR, when in dust to Thee | |
| Low we bend the adoring knee; | |
| When, repentant, to the skies | |
| Scarce we lift our weeping eyes,— | |
| O, by all Thy pains and woe | 5 |
| Suffered once for man below, | |
| Bending from Thy throne on high, | |
| Hear our solemn litany! | |
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| By Thy helpless infant years; | |
| By Thy life of want and tears; | 10 |
| By Thy days of sore distress | |
| In the savage wilderness; | |
| By the dread mysterious hour | |
| Of the insulting tempter’s power,— | |
| Turn, O, turn a favoring eye, | 15 |
| Hear our solemn litany! | |
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| By the sacred griefs that wept | |
| O’er the grave where Lazarus slept; | |
| By the boding tears that flowed | |
| Over Salem’s loved abode; | 20 |
| By the anguished sigh that told | |
| Treachery lurked within Thy fold,— | |
| From Thy seat above the sky | |
| Hear our solemn litany! | |
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| By Thine hour of dire despair; | 25 |
| By Thine agony of prayer; | |
| By the cross, the nail, the thorn, | |
| Piercing spear, and torturing scorn; | |
| By the gloom that veiled the skies | |
| O’er the dreadful sacrifice,— | 30 |
| Listen to our humble cry, | |
| Hear our solemn litany! | |
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| By Thy deep expiring groan; | |
| By the sad sepulchral stone; | |
| By the vault whose dark abode | 35 |
| Held in vain the rising God; | |
| O, from earth to heaven restored, | |
| Mighty, reascended Lord,— | |
| Listen, listen to the cry | |
| Of our solemn litany! | 40 |
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