72. Saviour, when in dust to thee

1 Saviour, when in dust to thee
Low we bend the adoring knee;
When, repentant, to the skies,
Scarce we lift our weeping eyes;
O by all thy pains and woe
Suffered once for man below,
Bending from thy throne on high,
Hear our solemn litany!

2 By thy helpless infant years,
By thy life of want and tears,
By thy days of sore distress
In the savage wilderness,
By the dread mysterious hour
Of the insulting tempter's power;
Turn, O turn a favoring eye,
Hear our solemn litany! A-men.

3 By thine hour of dire despair,
By thine agony of prayer;
By the cross, the nail, the thorn,
Piercing spear, the torturing scorn;
By the gloom that veiled the skies
O'er the dreadful sacrifice;
Listen to our humble cry,
Hear our solemn litany!

4 By thy deep expiring groan,
By the sad sepulchral stone,
By the vault whose dark abode
Held in vain the rising God;
O from earth to heaven restored,
Mighty, re-ascended Lord,
Listen, listen to the cry
Of our solemn litany!

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Saviour, when in dust to thee
Author: Robert Grant, 1779 - 1838
Meter: 7 7, 7 7. D.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1958
Topic: The Church Year: Lent; The Church Year: Holy Week
Tune Information
Name: SPANISH HYMN
Arranger: Benjamin Carr, 1768 - 1831
Meter: 7 7, 7 7. D.
Key: A♭ Major



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