Christ — Sufferings and Death

'Tis finished! so the Saviour cried

"'Tis finished!" so the Saviour cried,

No. 316
Metre L. M.
Tune OLDEN.
Words Samuel Stennett.
Music Lowell Mason.
Key A-flat major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 2/2
4 stanzas

Words

"'Tis finished!" so the Saviour cried,And meekly bowed his head, and died:'Tis finished! yes, the race is run;The battle fought; the victory won.

'T is finished! that which heaven foretoldBy prophets in the days of old;And truths are opened to our viewThat kings and prophets never knew.

'T is finished! Son of God, thy powerHath triumphed in this awful hour;And yet our eyes with sorrow seeThat life to us was death to thee.

'T is finished! let the joyful soundBe heard through all the nations round;'T is finished! let the triumph rise,And swell the chorus of the skies!

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «CHRIST—SUFFERINGS AND DEATH.»; hymn number «316» (large), tune name «OLDEN. L. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals; the stops are this face's square stops, read as commas by the page OCR), «LOWELL MASON.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before the opening quotation marks: the words of Christ are in double quotes («"'Tis fin-ished!"»), the second «'Tis» of the stanza is not; «fin-ished», «bat-tle» with close hyphens, «vic - tory» with a spaced hyphen, «Saviour» and «meekly» set unhyphenated under two notes, «Andmeeklybowedhis» set very tight. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «314, 315, 171.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 314, 315 or 171), flush (no indentation); «Samuel Stennett.» in italics after stanza 4. The text stanzas are numbered «2», «3», «4» without a period; they are written «2.» … here, like the interlinear «1.». In the text stanzas «'T is» is printed with a space after the apostrophe (kept); in the interlinear stanza «'Tis» is set close (kept). The print sets a thin space before «!» and «;» («finished !», «old ;», «hour ;», «round ;», «skies !», «run ;», «fought ;»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly quotes and apostrophes are written straight. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.