Hinshaw Music
HMC1945
SATB anthem
By: Donna Butler Douglas
Level: Easy
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Set to the familiar hymn tune EBENEZER, a well-crafted simple anthem for use during Lent, on Palm/Passion Sunday, general use.
Available through the publisher and choral music distributors.
Text by William J. Sparrow-Simpson, 1887
Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow,
where the blood of Christ was shed.
Perfect Man on thee did suffer.
Perfect God on thee has bled!
Here the King of all the ages,
throned in light ere worlds could be,
Robed in mortal flesh is dying,
crucified by sin for me.
O mysterious condescending!
O abandonment sublime!
Very God himself is bearing
all the sufferings of time!
Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow,
where the blood of Christ was shed.
Perfect Man on thee did suffer.
Perfect God on thee has bled!
