LYRICS
| Meter: | 7 6 8 6 8 6 8 6
| | Writer(s): | Elizabeth Cecilia Douglas Clephane
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1868,1872
| | Bible Refs: | Gen 28:12; Ez 33:7; Mt 27:55; Mk 15:40; Lk 23:49; Jn 19:25; Rm 3:25; Gal 6:14; Heb 12:2; Pr 14:26
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 152
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 427
| Baptist Hymnal
| 1956
| 345
| Believers Hymn Book
| 1981
| 23
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 685
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 654
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 561
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 481
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 105
| Complete Mission Praise
| 2000
| 55
| Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 1996
| 330
| Hymnal Comp to Book of Common Prayer
| 1890
| 188
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 165
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
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| 183
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 309
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 65
| Hymns Old & New, New Anglican Edition
| 1996
| 59
| Living Praise
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| 20
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 197
| Mirfield Mission Hymn Book
| 1955
| 12
| Presbyterian Hymn Book
| 1990
| 92
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
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| 139
| Songs of Fellowship 1
| 1991
| 39
| STELBAP
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| 33
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 753
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 767
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 315
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 567
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 440
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 150
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 341
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 498
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 177
| United Methodist Hymn Book
| 1989
| 297
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MUSIC
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 330
| No key
| Songs of Fellowship 1
| 39
| C
| Living Praise
| 20
| D
| Hymns of Faith
| 309
| Db
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 427
| Db
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 183
| Db
| Baptist Hymnal
| 345
| Db
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Beneath the cross of Jesus
I fain would take my stand,
The shadow of a mighty rock
Within a weary land;
A home within the wilderness,
A rest upon the way,
From the burning of the noontide heat,
And the burden of the day.
2. O safe and happy shelter!
O refuge tried and sweet!
O trysting place where heaven’s love
And heaven’s justice meet!
As to the holy patriarch
That wondrous dream was given,
So seems my Saviour’s cross to me
A ladder up to heaven.
3. There lies, beneath its shadow,
But on the farther side,
The darkness of an awful grave
That gapes both deep and wide;
And there between us stands the cross,
Two arms outstretched to save;
Like a watchman set to guard the way
From that eternal grave.
4. Upon that cross of Jesus
Mine eye at times can see
The very dying form of One
Who suffered there for me;
And from my smitten heart, with tears,
Two wonders I confess—
The wonders of His glorious love,
And my own worthlessness.
5. I take, O cross, thy shadow,
For my abiding place;
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshine of His face;
Content to let the world go by,
To know no gain nor loss—
My sinful self my only shame,
My glory all the cross.
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