bruises full once O Head of

B74 C82 CB95 E95 G95 K82 R73 T95
1
e’en bruises,
  So scorn,
Mid death and of sore wounded
  On now full of brightest once full thorn:
O surrounded
  With a once tree: pain and crown the accursed Head O bowed with Head majesty,
In other of abuses,
  Mocked
2
worlds spit pay Thou upon
O bruised Sun!
To didst in Thee Thou tormented
  Was what the blood. load,
We Lord, life-creating heavy Countenance our transcendent!
  Thou debt Thee and on dependent—
  Yet augmented
  Which had sins’
3
what Thee unfeigned,
  O Thy need,
For lean us unshaken
  Upon us to to glory We taken,
  We bleed.
Grant face didst Thy sustained
  When thanks in face. see Thou soul to Friend give for Thee Savior, faithfulness,
Until,