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| SAVIOUR, when in dust to Thee | |
| Low we bow th’ adoring knee, | |
| When repentant, to the skies | |
| Scarce we lift our weeping eyes; | |
| O by all Thy pains and woe, | 5 |
| Suffered once for man below, | |
| Bending from Thy throne on high, | |
| Hear our solemn Litany! | |
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| By Thy helpless infant years, | |
| By Thy life of want and tears | 10 |
| 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 favouring eye, | 15 |
| Hear our solemn Litany! | |
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| By the sacred griefs that wept | |
| O’er the grave where Lazarus slept; | |
| By the boding tears that flow’d | |
| Over Salem’s loved abode; | 20 |
| By the anguish’d sigh that told | |
| Treachery lurked within Thy fold, | |
| From Thy seat above the sky, | |
| Hear our solemn Litany! | |
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| By Thine hour of dire despair, | 25 |
| By Thine agony of pray’r; | |
| By the cross, the nail, the thorn, | |
| Piercing spear and torturing scorn; | |
| By the gloom that veil’d the skies | |
| O’er the dreadful sacrifice, | 30 |
| Listen to our humble cry! | |
| Hear our solemn Litany! | |
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| By Thy deep expiring groan, | |
| By the sad sepulchral stone, | |
| By the vault whose dark abode | 35 |
| Held in vain the rising God! | |
| O! from earth to heaven restor’d, | |
| Mighty, re-ascended Lord, | |
| Listen, listen to the cry | |
| Of our solemn Litany! | 40 |
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