Go to Dark Gethsemane

Verse 1

Go to dark
Gethsemane,
ye that feel
the tempter’s power;

your Redeemer’s
conflict see,
watch with him
one bitter hour.

Turn not from
his griefs away;
learn of Jesus
Christ to pray.

Verse 2

See him at
the judgment hall,
beaten, bound,
reviled, arraigned;

O the wormwood
and the gall!
O the pangs
his soul sustained!

Shun not suffering,
shame, or loss;
learn of Christ
to bear the cross.

Verse 3

Calvary’s mournful
mountain climb;
there, adoring
at his feet,

mark that miracle
of time,
God’s own
sacrifice complete.

“It is finished!”
hear him cry;
learn of Jesus
Christ to die.

Verse 4

Early hasten
to the tomb
where they laid
his breathless clay;

all is solitude
and gloom.
Who has taken
him away?

Christ is risen!
He meets our eyes;
Savior, teach
us so to rise.