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 His love at once and dread instruct our thought;
 As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.  
 His love at once and dread instruct our thought;
 As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. 
 Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded,
 With a crown of thorns surrounded,
  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,
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 Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded,
 With a crown of thorns surrounded,
  Buffeted, and bruised and battered,
   Smote with reed by striking shattered,
    Face with spittle vilely smeared!
     Hail, whose visage sweet and comely,
      Marred by fouling stains and homely,
       Changed as to its blooming color,
        All now turned to deathly pallor,
         Making heavenly hosts affeared! 
 God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were 
irreverent to ponder how the Son of read more 
 God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were 
irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. 
 A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he.
 He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,
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 A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he.
 He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,
  As if Theocritus in Sicily
   Had come upon the Figure crucified,
    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest. 
 But chiefly Thou,
 Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven
  To bleed for man, to teach read more 
 But chiefly Thou,
 Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven
  To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,
   And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die. 
 All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights 
to dwell, His visits there are frequent, read more 
 All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights 
to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, 
His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding. 
 Who did leave His Father's throne,
 To assume thy flesh and bone?
  Had He life, or had read more 
 Who did leave His Father's throne,
 To assume thy flesh and bone?
  Had He life, or had He none?
   If he had not liv'd for thee,
    Thou hadst died most wretchedly
     And two deaths had been thy fee. 
 Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean;
 The world has grown gray from thy breath;
  We have drunken read more 
 Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean;
 The world has grown gray from thy breath;
  We have drunken from things Lethean,
   And fed on the fullness of death. 
 In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to 
see the difference between things; and read more 
 In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to 
see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us 
light.