Protect, Lord, those we leave behind,
Let each befriend the other.
Now from His Frame exhausted burst
Those few faint Words, “I thirst! I thirst!”
O Lord! for our salvation
Thy Thirst was great: then help us still
To overcome temptation.
Then rose that Cry, “My God, oh why
Forsake me in my Agony?”
Lord, Thou wast here forsaken,