Into The Woods My Master Went
- Words:
- Sidney Lanier
- Music:
- H. M. Hansen
Sheet music
- 1Into the woods my Master went,Clean for-spent, for-spent.Into the woods my Master came,For-spent with love and shame.But the olives, they were not blind to Him,The little gray leaves were kind to Him:The thorn-tree had a mind to HimWhen into the woods He came.
- 2Out of the woods my Master went,And was well content,Out of the woods my Master came,Content with death and shame.When Death and Shame would woo Him last,From under the trees they drew Him last:‘Twas on a tree they slew Him– lastWhen out of the woods He came.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1880, the words are in 68 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.