God the Father
God the Son
Holy Ghost
the Comforter
Ever blessèd Three in One
Hearken to our humble prayer:
Hear us when we call to Thee
Spare us
Holy Trinity.
Hear us
Son of God
O hear!
We approach Thee for our dead;
Lead them
in the vale of fear
Be Thy wings around them spread:
Lord of life and love
we pray
Grant them mercy in that day.
Child of Mary
who didst bear
Mortal flesh
for man to die;
Child of sorrow
toil
and care
Grant them rest eternally.
Dweller in the vale of death
Second Adam
source of life
Wearer of the thorny wreath
Victor in the deadly strife.
Thou who didst let fall the tear
On the grave of Bethany;
Who at Nain did stay the bier
That lone mother’s tear to dry.
Thou whose voice could wake the dead
Maid! I say to thee
arise!
Who didst bow Thy dying hand
On the day of sacrifice.
Thou who passedst through the gloom
Which enshrouds the vale of death
Guide their footsteps through the tomb
Shelter them Thine arms beneath.
By Thy flesh with scourges torn
By Thy suffering human soul
By the crown of woven thorn
By the mocking title-scroll.
By the quiet rock-hewn cave
Where Thy body slept so well
When Thy Spirit
through the grave
Entered to the realms of hell:
By Thy preaching of the Christ
To the souls in prison bound
When was rolled away the mist
Which had hung their vision round.
By the eternal sacrifice
Which Thou pleadest at the throne
Only gift which can suffice
For that gift is all Thine own.
By the offering which we plead
One with Thine in Heaven above
By the Lamb whose five wounds bled
To fill full our cup of love.
In the fell and fearful day
Day of fury and of ire
When the earth shall melt away
In the thunder-blast of fire.
When to hear the doom are met
Saints and sinners
quick and dead
And the great white throne is set
And the books are open spread.
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