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

But that crimson stream for cleansing,

O’er creation wide prevails.

III

Faithful Cross! in all the woodland,

Standeth not a nobler tree;

In thy leaf, and flower, and fruitage,

None can e’er thy equal be;

Sweet the wood, and sweet the iron,

Sweet the load that hung on thee.

IV