From Catherine Winkworth’s German Christian Singers comes this hymn on Christ’s entombment.
- O darkest woe! Ye tears, forth flow!
Has earth so sad a wonder?
God the Father’s only Son
Now lies buried yonder.
- O child of man, It was the ban
Of death on thee that brought Him
Down to suffer for thy sins,
And such woe hath wrought Him.
- Behold thy Lord, The Lamb of God,
Blood-sprinkled lies before thee,
Pouring out his life that He
May to life restore thee.
- O ground of faith, Laid low in death,
Sweet lips now silent sleeping!
Surely all that live must mourn
Here with bitter weeping.
- O Jesu blest, My help and rest!
With tears I pray, Lord hear me!
Make me love Thee to the last,
And in death be near me.