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Alas! and did my Savior bleed?
And did my Sov'reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?
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At the cross, at the cross,
Where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away -
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day.
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Stanza: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
Chorus: Ralph E. Hudson, 1843-1901
Alas! and did my Saviour bleed