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At The Cross
- Words:
- Isaac Watts
- Music:
- Ralph Hudson
Sheet music
- 1Alas! and did my Savior bleed?And did my Sov'reign die?Would He devote that sacred head,For such a worm as I?At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light,And the burden of my heart rolled away,(rolled away,)It was there by faith I received my sight,And now I am happy all the day.
- 2Was it for crimes that I had doneHe groaned upon the tree?Amazing pity! grace unknown!And love beyond degree!At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light,And the burden of my heart rolled away,(rolled away,)It was there by faith I received my sight,And now I am happy all the day.
- 3Well might the sun in darkness hide,And shut his glories in,When Christ, the mighty Maker, died,For man the creature's sin.At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light,And the burden of my heart rolled away,(rolled away,)It was there by faith I received my sight,And now I am happy all the day.
- 4But drops of grief can ne'er repayThe debt of love I owe,Here, Lord, I give myself away;'Tis all that I can do.At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light,And the burden of my heart rolled away,(rolled away,)It was there by faith I received my sight,And now I am happy all the day.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1707, the words are in 2,651 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.