Text: | What Wondrous Love |
Author: | John Newton |
Tune: | [I saw One hanging on a tree] |
Composer: | E. O. Excell |
1 I saw One hanging on a tree,
In agony and blood’
He fixed His languid eyes on me,
As near His cross I stood.
Chorus:
What wondrous love! Thy life to give
That I might ransomed be;
Had I a thousand lives to live
I’d live them all for Thee.
2 Sure, never to my latest breath,
Can I forget that look;
It seemed to charge me with His death,
Tho’ not a word He spoke. [Chorus]
3 My conscience felt and owned the guilt,
And [lunged me in despair;
I saw my sins His blood had spilt
And helped to nail Him there. [Chorus]
4 Alas! I knew not what I did,—
But now my tears are vain;
Where shall my trembling soul be hid?
For I the Lord have slain. [Chorus]
5 A second look He gave, that said,
“I freely all forgive;
This blood is for thy ransom paid;
I die that thou may’st live.” [Chorus]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | I saw One hanging on a tree |
Title: | What Wondrous Love |
Author: | John Newton |
Refrain First Line: | What wondrous love! Thy life to give |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1914 |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [I saw One hanging on a tree] |
Composer: | E. O. Excell |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. |