Text:Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?
Author:Rev. Isaac Watts
Tune:AVON
Composer:Hugh Wilson

74b. Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?

1 Alas! and did my Savior bleed?
And did my Sov'reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?

2 Was it for crimes that I have done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker, died
For man, the creature's sin.

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face,
While His dear cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness
And melt my eyes to tears.

Text Information
First Line: Alas! and did my Savior bleed?
Title: Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?
Author: Rev. Isaac Watts (1707)
Meter: C M
Language: English
Publication Date: 1929
Topic: Jesus Christ: Passion
Tune Information
Name: AVON
Composer: Hugh Wilson (c. 1800)
Meter: C M
Incipit: 51651 23213 53213
Key: A♭ Major



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