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Where falls the shadow of the Kofel cross	B
Athwart the Alpine snows the rose of faith	C
Is blooming still in consecrated hearts	D
And holy men another cross have hewn	E
Whereon the symboled Christ again shall die	A
To cleanse the world of sin Within the vale	F
Where flows the Ammer like a trail of tears	G
Upon the Holy Mother's face I see	H
The men and women faithful to their vows	I
Breathing the passion of Gethsemane	E
I see the Saviour in Jerusalem	J
I see the godless traders scourged I see	H
Their wares strewn on the temple floor their doves	K
Set free to wander on the roving winds	L
I see Iscariot kiss the Nazarene	E
I see the hate of Herod and I hear	M
The multitude half sob half wail The Cross	B
Then up the Way of Tears to Golgotha	C
Crowned with the thorn and then last bitter scene	E
The mortal death of God's immortal Son	E
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II	A
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The eagle wheels around the Kofel crags	B
The chamois leaps the tumbling glacier stream	N
The sunbeams dance upon the glistening snows	B
Like pixies and the wooded mountain slopes	B
Thrill with the notes of songbirds hymns of joy	O
Break from the forests and the smiling plains	B
And where the Ammer winds its silvery way	P
The wild swan ever follows like a prayer	Q
Who of God's creatures then has lost his way	P
'Tis not the chamois eagle or the swan	E
'Tis not the mountain torrent or the birds	B
That twitter all day long within the wood	R
'Tis not the Ammer flowing to the sea	B
Who of God's creatures then has lost his way	P
Let us go in the Coliseum where	Q
The fresh hewn cross is lifted to the sky	A
Let us gaze on the reverential throng	S
That marks Christ's passion in a silent awe	T
And think a moment on the world of Man	E
Man made in God's own image yet the one	E
Of all God's creatures who has lost his way	P
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III	A
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When on the brooding darkness of the void	U
Wherein the world swung like a tiny star	V
Death hovered with his sable wings outspread	U
And Hell yawned far below God gave to man	E
His promise of redemption through the blood	U
That dripped from pierced hands high on Calvary	B
The mortal death of God's immortal Son	E
The centuries have crumbled into dust	U
Cities have risen on the shores of Time	W
Then passed away like footprints in the sand	U
Empires have vanished kings have laid them down	E
In silence but the word of Him remains	B
Who cried in agony upon the tree	B
Forgive them for they know not what they do	U
Once more the fresh hewn cross lifts to the sky	A
In consecrated Oberammergau	A
Once more I see the Christ in humble guise	B
Teaching the multitudes and hear his voice	B
In supplication and in parable	X
Proclaim his mission to a sinful world	U
Ah could the world but gaze upon that Christ	U
With heart attuned unto the symboled love	Y
That makes his face a radiant miracle	X
The world hath need of thy great lesson now	E
The money changers throng the Temple gates	B
The kiss of Judas burns from lips to brow	E
The hate of Herod rankles in the hearts	B
Of scorners and the poisoned crown of thorns	B
Which Greed has woven for humanity	B
Bites like the chaplet that the Saviour wore	Z
The day that He was crowned and crucified	U
Methinks I see around the shining cross	B
Phantoms that shudder when the name of Christ	U
Is whispered by the multitude I see	B
Grim Avarice with shriveled fingers clutch	A2
A golden bauble shrinking by his side	U
Oppression stands and hugs a clanking chain	E
While deeper in the gloom with eyes aglow	B2
And matted hair still dripping red with gore	Z
Sits War her trembling hand enclasped within	E
The spectral hand of Death O Christus thou	E
To whom it has been given once again	E
To symbolize the passion of the cross	B
Approach thy task with heart inspired by love	Y
And when the Saviour's words fall from thy lips	B
Be thine the Saviour's exaltation when	E
He told the dying thief upon the cross	B
That he should be with Him in Paradise	B

Charles Hamilton Musgrove

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