The bitter cry.
From Calvary a cry was heard—
A bitter and heart-rending cry:
My Saviour! every mournful word
Bespeaks thy soul’s deep agony.
2 A horror of great darkness fell
On thee, thou spotless holy One!
And all the swarming hosts of hell
Conspired to tempt God’s only Son.
3 The scourge, the thorns, the deep disgrace—