Thou art the Christ, Lord Jesus,
Son of the living God,
Worthy art Thou, most worthy,
To be by all adored.
Creator, Thou, of all things
In heaven and on earth,
All worlds are thine, Lord Jesus,
All owe to Thee their birth.
Humbled, rejected Savior,
Nailed to the cursed tree,
Bearing for guilty sinners,
Shame and indignity.
Oh! who can tell thy sorrows;
Or who conceive Thy pain;
When Thou by God forsaken,
Wast crucified and slain?
First-born of every creature,
Seated in glory now,
Head of the new creation,
Before Thy feet we bow.
Thou art the Christ, Lord Jesus,
Son of the living God,
We worship, we adore Thee,
The purchase of Thy blood.
M. S.S.
St. Petersburg, November 1877.