And rescue who in Him believed from death—
That second death—of which the first is type.
Here lived—here died—whom prophets long foretold,
Whom angels worship and whom seraphs praise,
The Son of God, mysterious God-Man:
He was rejected by the Jew; and here—
To fill the awful measure of their guilt—
At noon, a deed was done, without a peer;
A deed, unequalled since the world began,
The masterpiece of sin, of crime the chief;