Chorus.
Jesu, Saviour, hear our cry!
Thou wert suffering once as we;
Hear the loving Litany
We, thy children, sing to thee.
By the thorns that crown'd thy head,
By thy sceptre of a reed.
By thy footstep faint and slow,
Weigh'd beneath thy cross of woe,—
Jesu, Saviour, &c.
By the nails and pointed spear,
By thy people's cruel jeer,
By thy dying prayer which rose
Begging mercy for thy foes,—
Jesu, Saviour, &c.
By the darkness thick as night,
Blotting out the sun from sight;
By the cry with which in death
Thou didst yield thy parting breath,—
Jesu, Saviour, &c.
By thy weeping mother's woe,
By the sword that pierc'd her through,
When in anguish standing by,
On the cross she saw thee die,—
Jesu, Saviour, &c.
33. Litany of the Resurrection of Jesus.
By the first bright Easter-day,
