“Down from His Glory” by William Emmanuel Booth-Clibborn

Down from His glo­ry, ever-liv­ing sto­ry,
My God and Sav­ior came, and Je­sus was His name,
Born in a man­ger, to His own a strang­er,
A man of sor­rows, tears, and ago­ny.

O how I love Him! How I ad­ore Him!
My breath, my sun­shine, my all in all.
The great Cre­at­or became my Sav­ior,
And all God’s full­ness dwelleth in Him.

What con­des­cen­sion, bringing us re­demp­tion,
That in the dead of night, not one faint hope in sight,
God, gra­cious, ten­der, laid aside His splen­dor,
Stooping to woo, to win, to save my soul!

Without re­luct­ance, flesh and blood His sub­stance,
He took the form of man, revealed the hid­den plan.
O glo­ri­ous mys­te­ry, sacrifice of Cal­v’ry!
And now I know Thou art the great I Am.

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