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Behold the Savior of mankind
Nail’d to the shameful tree!
How vast the love that him inclin’d
To bleed and die for thee!
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Hark, how he groans! while nature shakes,
And earth’s strong pillars bend!
The temple’s veil in sunder breaks,
The solid marbles rend.
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’Tis done! the precious ransom’s paid,
“Receive my soul!” he cries:
See where he bows his sacred head!
He bows his head, and dies!
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But soon he’ll break death’s envious chain
And in full glory shine:
O Lamb of God, was ever pain,
Was ever love like thine!