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Hymn
FOR A LATE SERVICE ON MAUNDY THURSDAY.
Prostrate fell the Lord of all things
in His night of Agony;
While the Paschal Moon was lighting
holiest Gethsemane:
in His night of Agony;
While the Paschal Moon was lighting
holiest Gethsemane:
And the torrents of His Passion
deep and fierce above Him roll;
And the rivers of transgression
overwhelm His Human Soul.
deep and fierce above Him roll;
And the rivers of transgression
overwhelm His Human Soul.
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Sins unknown, sins unimagined,
sins by day, and sins by night,
Sins of blackest outer darkness
press upon His purest sight;
sins by day, and sins by night,
Sins of blackest outer darkness
press upon His purest sight;
Sins, since o'er the Eastern Portal
first the Cherub waved his sword,
To the last that shall be written
ere the Coming of the Lord.
first the Cherub waved his sword,
To the last that shall be written
ere the Coming of the Lord.
Thence the Three-fold Supplication
wrung from That Eternal Son:
Thence the Blood-Sweat, thence the “Father,
not My Will, but Thine be done.”
wrung from That Eternal Son:
Thence the Blood-Sweat, thence the “Father,
not My Will, but Thine be done.”
Then the Father, from the Darkness
where the Godhead dwells alone,
Spake to one Celestial Brightness
of the nearest to the Throne:
where the Godhead dwells alone,
Spake to one Celestial Brightness
of the nearest to the Throne:
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“Go and tell my people's Captain,
tell the Shepherd of My Flock,
Tell the Man that is My Fellow,
now become the Gentiles' mock:
tell the Shepherd of My Flock,
Tell the Man that is My Fellow,
now become the Gentiles' mock:
“I have heard Thy supplication,
I have surely seen Thy tears;
I will add to this Thy life-time
an eternity of years.
I have surely seen Thy tears;
I will add to this Thy life-time
an eternity of years.
“This the sign: though by Thy Footsteps
first the path of Death be trod,
On the Third Day Thou shalt, rising,
enter in the House of God.”
first the path of Death be trod,
On the Third Day Thou shalt, rising,
enter in the House of God.”
Thence, sin vanquished, sorrow ended,
the Assyrian power o'erthrown,
Now our truer Ezechias
reigns for ever on the Throne!
the Assyrian power o'erthrown,
Now our truer Ezechias
reigns for ever on the Throne!
Amen.
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