Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: How beauteous were the marks divine
Topic: Christ/Deity
Writer: A Coxe
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: LM
Tune: Uxbridge
Hymn Number: 9
Page Number: 009, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow beauteous were the marks divine
That in Thy meekness used to shine,
That lit Thy lonely pathwy, trod
In wondrous love, O Son of God!
O who like Thee so calm, so bright,
So pure, so made to live in light?
O who like Thee did ever go
So patient through a world of woe?
O who like Thee so humbly bore
The scorn, the scoffs of men before?
So meek, forgiving, godlike, high,
So glorious in humility?
E'en death, which sets the pris'ner free,
Was pang, and scoff, and scorn to Thee;
Yet love through all Thy torture glow'd
And mercy with Thy life-blood flow'd
O in Thy light be mine to go,
Illuming all my way of woe!
And give me ever on the road
To trace Thy footsteps, Son of God!