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Go to Dark Gethsemane
Go to dark Gethsemane, you who 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.
Follow to the judgment hall; view the Lord of life arraigned,
O the wormwood and the gall! O the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame or loss; learn of him to bear the cross.
Calvary's mournful mountain climb; there, adoring at his feet,
mark that miracle of time, God's own sacrifice complete:
"It is finished!: hear them cry; learn of Jesus Christ to die.
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.