Tune: Breslau
(\'Take up thy cross, the Saviour said\')
Psalm 88 parts
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1. Lord God, you my salvation are
Though seeming now you are afar
Yet day and night I to you cry
My soul feels as if it will die
2. From deep I call to you, bereft
all seems dark here, I am in fear
Hoping, praying, you have not left
O coem to me, to me draw near
3. I mourn, I weep, yet still a spark
Of confidence that you will hark
Will hear my troubles, tend my need
You still my Shepherd, will me feed
4. Fro shall death praise you, does grave know
How to your works and glories show?
But here the living praise your name
Recount your worthies and your fam
5. Afflicted I, ready to die
Make haste to help me, to me fly
Abandon me not, help me sure
Then I shall live for evermore