TEXTS TUNES AUTHORS HYMNALS


Text information
Title:Go to dark Gethsemane
Author:James Montgomery (1825)
Meter:7.7.7.7.7.7
Language:English
First Line:Go to dark Gethsemane
Tune information
Title:PETRA
Composer:Richard Redhead (1853)
Meter:7.7.7.7.7.7
Incipit:11234 43112 3221
Full text

Go to dark Gethsemane,

Ye that 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 him cry;

Learn of Jesus Christ to die.