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Christ — Sufferings and Death

Bound upon the accursed tree

  • No. 335
  • Metre 7s. D.
  • Tune Martyn
  • Words Henry H. Milman.
  • 3 stanzas
  • Words only in the original

Words

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1

Bound upon the accursed tree,Faint and bleeding, who is He?By the eyes so pale and dim,Streaming blood, and writhing limb,By the flesh with scourges torn,By the crown of twisted thorn,By the drooping, death-dewed brow;Son of man, 't is thou! 't is thou!

2

Bound upon the accursed tree,Dread and awful, who is He?By the sun at noonday pale,Shivering rocks, and rending vail,By the earth enwrapt in gloom,By the saints who burst their tomb,Lord, our suppliant knees we bow!Son of God! 't is thou! 't is thou!

3

Bound upon the accursed tree,Dread and awful, who is He?By the prayer for them that slew,"Lord! they know not what they do!"By the spoiled and empty grave,By the souls he died to save,By the rainbow round his brow,Son of God! 't is thou! 't is thou!

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «335» (large), then in italics within square brackets «[Tune Martyn, No. 464.]» (sing to the tune MARTYN, hymn 464; no comma after «Tune»), then «7s. D.» in bold at the right («D.» in small capitals; = sevens, double). Three numbered stanzas of eight lines in the right column of p. 111 below the end of hymn 334, «Henry H. Milman.» in italics at the end. The first word «BOUND» is set in capitals and small capitals. «'t is» is printed with the apostrophe before the «t» and a space before «is» (curly apostrophes and quotation marks written straight). The print sets a thin space before «?», «!» and «;» («He ?», «thou !», «brow ;»); it is closed up here. All lines of each stanza stand at the same margin, as printed (the opening quotation mark of stanza 3, line 4, hangs in the margin). Spelling («vail», «enwrapt»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.

Source
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
Where
Christ — Sufferings and Death · No. 335 · printed page 111
Checked
lyrics verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-01