Did love, and love, and love till his heart brake;
He took away the anguish of men's pain
By spending all their pain on his own life;
He drove away the shadows from men's minds
By giving them himself, who was the Light.
Ah Christ, that thou hadst not been crucified!
Wert thou still living by the fishers' lake,
Then thou hadst heard me half across the world;
Though from the Andes, I had cried to thee,
Still hadst thou heard, and come from Palestine