Hymns of the Early Church / being translations from the poetry of the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year

by John Brownlie

And there dawns the woeful day,

When the great Redeemer girds Him

For the tumult of the fray;

And upon the cross uplifted,

Bears our load of guilt away.

II

Ah! ’tis bitter gall He drinketh,

When His heart in anguish fails;—

From the thorns His life-blood trickles,

From the spear wound and the nails;