The phrase "cut down" resonates through 7 hymns, touching hearts across generations.
cut down
...Once the pride of the mountainside,
Now cut down to grace our Christmastide;
For Christ from Heav’n to earth came down,...
Once the pride of the mountainside,
Now cut down to grace our Christmastide;
For Christ from Heav’n to earth came down,
...An empty tale, a morning flower,
Cut down and withered in an hour.
Our age to seventy years is set;...
An empty tale, a morning flower,
Cut down and withered in an hour.
Our age to seventy years is set;
...For like the grass they perish soon,
And, like the herb cut down at noon,
They wither in a day....
For like the grass they perish soon,
And, like the herb cut down at noon,
They wither in a day.
...In beauty’s pride arrayed;
But long ere night cut down it lies
All withered and decayed....
In beauty’s pride arrayed;
But long ere night cut down it lies
All withered and decayed.
...They who had thought the world their own
Are with the meanest class cut down;
Both king and princes have to die....
They who had thought the world their own
Are with the meanest class cut down;
Both king and princes have to die.
...No pardon offered to the dead.
Just as a tree cut down, that fell
To north or southward, there it lies,...
No pardon offered to the dead.
Just as a tree cut down, that fell
To north or southward, there it lies,
...The branch of Thy planting
Is burned and cut down,
Brought nigh to destruction...
The branch of Thy planting
Is burned and cut down,
Brought nigh to destruction
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