Christ My Song - 498

Thine and yet ours, O Lord! - My Cup
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

My Cup.

Matthew 20,23.

1. Thine and yet ours, O Lord!
  Ours, and yet also thine,
that cup of dread and wrath,
  cup of unearthly wine. PDF - Midi

2. Too bitter far for us,
  the wormwood and the gall;
no wine of joy is there,
  no cup of festival.

3. We dare not touch one drop
  in that sad, solemn cup,
which thou for us didst take,
  in love to drink it up.

4. Oh, teach us, teach us, Lord,
  what that deep bitterness
contained in it for us
  of sweetness and of peace!

5. To thee the cup of wrath,
  to us the cup of love,
emptied of all but joy
  and healing from above!

Horatius Bonar, Hymns of the Nativity, 1879, 125-126.

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