While horrors pressed on every side,

And prostrate on the ground he lay,

“Remove this bitter cup away.

2 “But if these pangs must still be borne,

Or helpless man be left forlorn,

I bow my soul before thy throne,

And say,—Thy will, not mine, be done!”

3 Thus our submissive souls would bow,

And, taught by Jesus, lie as low;

Our hearts, and not our lips alone,