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Text:Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed? (At The Cross)
Author:Isaac Watts
Author (refrain):Ralph E. Hudson
Tune:[Alas! And did my Savior bleed?]
Composer:Ralph E. Hudson

12. Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed? (At The Cross)

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 mine eyes to 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!

Refrain:
At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!

Text Information
First Line: Alas! And did my Savior bleed?
Title: Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed? (At The Cross)
Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
Author (refrain): Ralph E. Hudson (1885)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1997
Scripture: ;
Topic: Atonement; Cross; Jesus: Death (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: [Alas! And did my Savior bleed?]
Composer: Ralph E. Hudson (1885)
Key: E Major



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