Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: He knelt the Savior knelt and prayed
Topic: Christ/Life and Ministry
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CLM
Tune: Calm
Hymn Number: 111
Page Number: 044, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHe knelt; the Savior knelt and prayed
When but his Father's eye
Looked, through the lonely garden shade,
On that dread agony:
The Lord of high and heavenly birth
Was bowed with sorrow unto death.
The sun went down in fearful hour;
The heavens might well grow dim,
When this mortality had power
Thus to o'ershadow him;
That he who came to save might know
The very depths of human woe.
He knew them all--the doubt, the strife,
The faint, perplexing dread:
The mists that hang o'er parting life
All darkened round his head;
And the deliverer knelt to pray:
Yet passed it not, that cup, away.
It passed not, though the stormy wave
Had sunk beneath his tread;
It passed not, thought to him the grave
Had yielded up its dead;
But there was sent him from on high,
A gift of strength for man to die.