Tune: Langran (St Agnes)
(\'Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face\')
John 19 v.17-42 parts
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Your heart was pierced, your side for me riven
When you on cross your life for me given
Your hands, feet, nailed, though innocent you be
You suffered there for me upon the tree
Yet \'tis good news for us, you took my place
And too for every soul of every race
Sharp thorns in crown adorned your head, for so
That all the world your salvation should know
Not ritual alone, but relationship
We forgiven, come to you to worship
Eternal life you give, your Spirit free
To take up in our hearts residency
For born of Him, your Spirit, we your sons
And daughters, here through Christ, sanctified ones
By grace you our Father, and family
Of believers you us unite to be
Dark, dark the hours, though it was day time
You took upon yourself each sin, each crime
Though by you none committed, no, not one
Redemption\'s work you finished, by you done
In your love, you obedient to death
Then resurrection, returns vital breath
Laid low in tomb, not there to stay alway
But to rise again, glorious third day
Of interlude \'tween death, resurrection
All hope seemed gone of you, the holy one
But daybreak of third day\'s morn soon did break
You Victor when tomb\'s stone moved, earth did quake