No. 35
[DEEP SPRING] or CONVERTED THIEF (B), KNH 90
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
As on the cross the Savior hung, and wept and bled and died,
He pour’d salvation on a wretch that languish’d at his side;
That languish’d at his side,
That languish’d at his side,
He pour’d salvation on a wretch that languish’d at his side.
His crimes, with inward grief and shame, the penitent confess’d;
Then turn’d his dying eyes to Christ and thus his prayer address’d: