orchidee

Lamenting The Light

Tune: Passion Chorale

(\'O sacred head, now wounded\')

Luke 23 v.26-32

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Journeying on your Passion

Simon chosen, he one

Of Cyrene, made to bear

Your cross, Jesus, right there

On way to be crucified

For us you bled and died

Sinners Friend, taking my place

And all of every race

 

Great multitude bewailing

Lamenting, sorrowing

Yet Jesus says, Weep not for

Me, but for yourselves sure

Faithful women and loyal

Now in distress and toil

Weep for yourselves and children

And husbands too, your men

 

For days are coming when they

Shall say, when in dismay

Blessed are the barren, childless

They shall not see distress

When \'tis said, You mountains fall

On us, hills cover all

Of us, for now \'green-tree days\'

What shall be done [in] \'dry days\'?