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Throned Upon The Awful Tree [#ThronedUpon #TheAwfulTree #AwfulTree #ThronedUponTheAwfulTree]

Song written by:
Original in English: John Ellerton (December 16 1826, Clerkenwell, London, England, UK – June 15, 1893, Torquay, Devon, England, UK)

1
Throned upon the awful tree
Lamb of God Your grief I see
Darkness veils Your anguished face
None its lines of woe can trace
None can tell what pangs unknown
Hold You silent and alone

2
Silent through those three dread hours
Wrestling with the evil powers
Left alone with human sin
Gloom around You and within
Till the appointed time is nigh
Til the Lamb of God may die

3
Hark that cry that peals aloud
Upward through the whelming cloud
You the Father’s only Son
You His own anointed One
You are asking can it be
Why have You forsaken Me

4
Lord should fear and anguish roll
Darkly o’er my sinful soul
You who once were thus bereft
That Your own might ne’er be left
Teach me by that bitter cry
In the gloom to know You nigh

Throned Upon The Awful Tree [#ThronedUpon #TheAwfulTree #AwfulTree #ThronedUponTheAwfulTree] | William Neil