Saviour, when in dust to Thee

1.

Saviour, when in dust to Thee

Low we bow the adoring knee

When, repentant to the skies

Scare we lift our weeping eyes

O, by all Thy pains and woe

Suffered once for man below

Bending from Thy throne on high

Hear our solemn litany

2.

By Thy helpless infant years

By Thy life of want and tears

By Thy fasting and distress

In the savage wilderness

By the dread, mysterious hour

Of the subtle tempter’s pow’r

Turn, O turn a fav’uring eye

Hear our solemn litany

3.

By the sacred grief that wept

O’er the grave where Lazarus slept

By the gracious tears that flowed

Over Salem’s loved abode

By the mournful word that told

Treachery lurked within Thy fold

From Thy seat above the sky

Hear our solemn litany

4.

By Thine hour of whelming fear

By Thine agony of prayer

By the purple robe of scorn

By Thy wounds, Thy crown of thorn

By the gloom that veiled the skies

O’er the dreadful sacrifice

Listen to our humble cry

Hear our solemn litany

5.

By Thy deep expiring groan

By the sealed sepulchral stone

By the vault whose dark abode

Held in vain the rising God

O, from earth to heaven restored

Mighty God, ascended Lord

Listen, listen to the cry

Of our solemn litany!