Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Songs of Day and Night. IX. If It Be PossibleAlexander B. Grosart (18351899)
I
I may not share Thy agony,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
Yet hear me, Lord, Thy prayer I pray,
As I am fainting on my way,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
A “cup of trembling” my hand holds,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
Forgive me, O forgive my cry,
“If it be possible, pass it by,”
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
And hour by hour he grows more weak,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
I mark the thinning of his face,
And awful lines upon him trace,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
Lord, hear me in my poor beseeching,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
“If it be possible,” spare him, Lord;
Speak Thou ev’n now the healing word,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
Thy name was nam’d upon his brow,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
Life is a great gift; I would fain
Have him a
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
Alas! alas! my little son,—
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!
My heart is sore; I can but sigh—
“If it be possible,” hear my cry,
O Jesus Christ my Saviour!