Friday, April 6, 2007

O Sacred Head

There is a version of this song (or hymn if you will) that's on Amy Grant's album "My Father's Eyes" that is just beautiful. I listen to it every Good Friday.

O sacred Head now wounded,
With grief and shame weighed down
Now scornfully surrounded,
With thorns Thine only crown
How art Thou pale with anguish,
With sore abuse and scorn
How dost that visage languish
Which once was bright as morn

What language shall I borrow
To thank Thee dearest friend
For this Thy dying sorrow,
Thy pity without end?
O make me Thine forever,
And should I fainting be
Lord let me never, never
Outlive my love to Thee.

(Paul Gerhardt, J. W. Alexander, Hans Hassler, 16th Lent, Bach)

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