Assumed our human nature and suffered in our place;
He suffered on Mount Calvary and ransomed all for me,
The law demands attention, to pay the penalty.
They laid him in a sepulchre, it being near at hand,
The grave could not now hold him, nor death’s cold iron hand;
He burst them all asunder and pulled their kingdoms down,
He’s overcome his enemies and wears a starry crown.
Miss Gilchrist finds this “reminiscent of the old Cornish ‘When God at first had Adam made’, and of the style of the Manx-Gaelic carvals.” See JFSS, viii., 83.
No. 6
[SAILOR’S HOME], SOH 182
Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)