My song is love unknown
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My song is love unknown, My Saviour's love for me, Love to the loveless shown, That they might lovely be. O who am I, That for my sake My Lord should take Frail flesh, and die? He came from his blest throne, Salvation to bestow; But men made strange, and none The longed-for Christ would know. But O, my Friend, My Friend indeed, Who at my need His life did spend! Sometimes they strew his way, And his sweet praises sing; Resounding all the day Hosannas to their King. Then "Crucify" Is all their breath, And for his death They thirst and cry. Why, what hath my Lord done? What makes this rage and spite? He made the lame to run, He gave the blind their sight. Sweet injuries! Yet they at these Themselves displease, And 'gainst him rise. They rise, and needs will have My dear Lord made away; A murderer they save, The Prince of Life they slay. Yet cheerful he To suffering goes, That he his foes From thence might free. In life, no house, no home My Lord on earth might have; In death, no friendly tomb But what a stranger gave. What may I say? Heaven was his home; But mine the tomb Wherein he lay. Here might I stay and sing. No story so divine; Never was love, dear King, Never was grief like thine! This is my Friend, In whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend. |
Amavit me Deus (est hoc meus canor), ut non amantibus incresceret amor. Heu! quis ego, sua nece ut salvet me factus caro? Thronum reliquerat salvare nos volens, speratus Christus, at recognitu carens, comes meus, vitae suae egente me improvidus. Vestem nunc ad pedes eunti cumulant quam longa et est dies "Hosanna" consonant; nunc "Ad crucem" idem fremunt esse et volunt exanimem. Quid ille nocuit? Unde haec malitia? Currendo claudus it, sunt caeco lumina; quae dulcia parum iuvant, et increpant quasi mala. Cum eum increpent mortemque cupiant, sicario favent, vivificum necant. Ad crucem is, ut salvi sint qui oderint, it hilaris. Dum vivit, is domum non ullam habitat, et mortuo locum ignotus homo dat; illi quidem supra est domus, terrae datus ego forem. Hic diu canerem amorem, Rex, tuum incomparabilem et luctum unicum. Amicus is mihi et comes quot sunt dies laudabilis. |