Could we command our very sinful past
To move before our eyes in great review,
Not yet we'd know God's mercy-all so vast;
Nor ever thus find power to start anew.

Instead, we look upon our blessed Lord,
And see the agony which He passed through:
Doomed to the cross, reviled by the horde
Of enemies of God, and of Him too!

We measure thus the mercy of our God,
Not by our thoughts of our iniquity,
But by the depths of love thus told abroad,
For which we'll praise Him through eternity.

G. S. A.