Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Hymns and Sacred Poems. II. Touched with a Feeling of Our InfirmitiesCecil Frances Alexander (18231895)
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Lies bleeding and unbound,
One only hand, a piercèd hand,
Can salve the sinner’s wound.
And tears of anguish flow,
One only heart, a broken heart,
Can feel the sinner’s woe.
Over some foul, dark spot,
One only stream, a stream of blood,
Can wash away the blot.
Thy hand bring sure relief;
Thy heart is touched with all our joys,
And feeleth for our grief.
Unseal that cleansing tide;
We have no shelter from our sin
But in Thy wounded side.