| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Original Hymns for Public, Private, and Social Devotion (1853).
IV. “Go to dark Gethsemane” | | By James Montgomery (1771–1854) |
| | | GO to dark Gethsemane, | |
| Ye that feel the tempter’s power; | |
| Your Redeemer’s conflict see, | |
| Watch with Him one bitter hour: | |
| Turn not from His griefs away, | 5 |
| Learn of Jesus Christ to pray. | |
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| Follow to the judgment-hall, | |
| View the Lord of Life arraigned; | |
| O the wormwood and the gall! | |
| O the pangs His soul sustained! | 10 |
| Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; | |
| Learn of Him to bear the cross. | |
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| Calvary’s mournful mountain climb, | |
| There, adoring at His feet, | |
| Mark that miracle of time,— | 15 |
| God’s own sacrifice complete: | |
| It is finished!—hear the cry; | |
| Learn of Jesus Christ to die. | |
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| Early hasten to the tomb, | |
| Where they laid His breathless clay: | 20 |
| All is solitude and gloom:— | |
| Who hath taken Him away? | |
| Christ is risen!—He meets our eyes. | |
| Saviour, teach us so to rise. | | | | |
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