Towering o’er the wrecks of time;

All the light of sacred story

Gathers round its head sublime.”

Therefore—

“Since I, who was undone and lost,

Have pardon through His name and Word;

Forbid it, then, that I should boast,

Save in the cross of Christ, my Lord.”

“Where’er I go, I’ll tell the story

Of the cross, of the cross;