O Sacred Head Surrounded : Recording
- Tune: Passion Chorale, (Herzlich Tut Mich Verlangen) composed by Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) and harmonised by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Public Domain.
- Meter: 76 76 D.
- Performance ℗ 2022 Richard Irwin Music®. All rights reserved. ISRC UKTU21900500.
O Sacred Head Surrounded : Lyrics
1. O Sacred head, surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn!
O bleeding head, so wounded,
Reviled and put to scorn!
Death’s pallid hue comes over you
The glow of life decays,
Yet angel hosts adore thee
And tremble as they gaze
2. I see thy strength and vigour
All fading in the strife,
And death with cruel rigor,
Bereaving thee of life;
O agony and dying!
O love to sinners free!
Jesus, all grace supplying,
O turn thy face on me.
3. In this thy bitter passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me
With thy most sweet compassion,
Unworthy though I be:
Beneath thy cross abiding
For ever would I rest,
In thy dear love confiding,
And with thy presence blest.
- Lyricist: Paul Gerhardt (1607 – 1676), translated by Henry Williams Baker (1821 – 1877). Public Domain.
- Meter: 76 76 D.
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