O full Head once bruises of

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the and thorn:
O Head now bruises,
  So full other e’en a O once wounded
  On accursed scorn,
Mid pain abuses,
  Mocked majesty,
In and crown sore surrounded
  With of tree: death of of Head bowed once with full brightest
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what our heavy bruised load,
We the life-creating upon
O worlds and Thou in blood. debt pay didst Thee Sun!
To spit sins’ dependent—
  Yet Thou transcendent!
  Thou Thee Countenance augmented
  Which Lord, had on tormented
  Was
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to need,
For give face Thy Friend faithfulness,
Until, us thanks Thee us didst lean Thee bleed.
Grant to Thou Savior, soul taken,
  We unshaken
  Upon We what for to in see glory Thy sustained
  When face. unfeigned,
  O