2 Corinthians 4:10: Always bearing about in the body the dying, &c

Waite in the flesh I languish,
And trace the Man of woe,
His most mysterious anguish,
His sharpest pangs I know,
I bear about the dying
Of Jesus on the tree,
To God my Father crying
"Thou hast forsaken me."

The cause of separation,
My sin, my sin I own;
Thy righteous indignation
Extorts the plaintive groan:
Chastised for sin's demerit,
Its bitterness I prove,
And suffer in His Spirit
Who never grieved Thy love.

Beneath His dereliction,
If Christ His mind impart,
I bear the full affliction,
Till it has broke my heart;
re Nr ee ee