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

E25. Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed?

1 Alas! and did my Saviour 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 had 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 in tears.

5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord, I give myself away,
'Tis all that I can do.

Text Information
First Line: Alas! and did my Saviour bleed?
Title: Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed?
Author: Isaac Watts
Meter: C. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1913
Topic: Lent
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: AVON
Composer: Hugh Wilson
Meter: C. M.
Key: A♭ Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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