- C Soprano Recorder
- F Alto Recorder
- C Tenor Recorder
- F Bass Recorder
- Verse 1
- Thou say’st
Take up thy cross,
O man, and follow Me
:
- The night is black, the feet are slack,
- Yet we would follow Thee.
- Verse 2
- But O, dear Lord, we cry,
- That we Thy face could see,
- Thy blesséd face one moment’s space
- Then might we follow Thee.
- Verse 3
- Dim tracts of time divide
- Those golden days from me;
- Thy voice comes strange o’er years of change;
- How can I follow Thee?
- Verse 4
- Comes faint and far Thy voice
- From vales of Galilee;
- Thy vision fades in ancient shades;
- How should we follow Thee?
- Verse 51
- Ah, sense-bound heart and blind!
- Is nought but what we see?
- Can time undo what once was true;
- Can we not follow Thee?
- Verse 6
- O heavy cross’of faith
- In what we cannot see!
- As once of yore Thyself restore,
- And help to follow Thee.
- Verse 7
- If not as once Thou cam’st
- In true humanity,
- Come yet as Guest within the breast
- That burns to follow Thee.
- Verse 8
- Within our heart of hearts
- In nearest nearness be:
- Set up Thy throne within Thine own:—
- Go, Lord: we follow Thee.
- May 15 entry for the 2022 Weekly Hymns Challenge.
- Holyrood composed by James Watson (1816-1880).
- Lyrics written 1865 by Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897)
- Hymn #450 in The Hymnary Of The United Church of Canada