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O Blessed Day When First Was Pourd
ANGELUS-Heilige Seelenlust, Breslau, 1657, ad.
O Blessed Day, When First Was Pour'd
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O Blessed day, when first was pour'd
The Blood of our Redeeming Lord!
O blessed day, when first began
His sufferings borne for sinful man!
Scarce enter'd on this life of woe,
His Infant Blood begins to flow;
A foretaste of His death He feels
An earnest of His love reveals.
From Hcav'n descending to fulfil
The bidding of His Father's Will
A victim even now He lies
Before the day of sacrifice.
For love of us His woes begin;
The Sinless suffers for our sin;
The Law's great Maker for our aid
Obedient to the Law is made.
The wound He through the Law endures
Our freedom from that Law secures;
Henceforth a holier law prevails,
The law of love which never fails.
Lord, circumcise our hearts, we pray,
And take what is not Thine away;
Write Thine own Name within our hearts,
Thy law upon our inmost parts.
O Lord, the Virgin-born, to Thee
Eternal praise and glory be,
Whom with the Father we adore
And Holy Ghost for evermore.