Sameiningin - 01.05.1900, Síða 3

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He’d spare but me alone ?
Lo, Adam’s nature truly
Pervades my flesh from birth,
And I have earned it duly
Again to turn to earth.
8. By right or plunder never
This earthly life I found ;
On loan, as ’t were, is ever
Soul unto body bound.
In the Lord’s hand e’er rested
To claim of me his loan ;
Death, one may say, ’s entrusted
To fetch the Maker’s own.
9. In God’s name then — beholding
What need besets me now!
I’m not their peer, whom folding
The earth guards dead bélow.
When comes the call, none cited
May ever buy him free ;
The night I face benighted,
No fear disturbing me.
10. I know there lives in heaven
My Savior dear, the One
To Whom all rule is given,
Named Jesus, He alone.
Death’s very Conqueror, dying
Upon the Cross, His strife
To me, in misery lying,
Made sure eternal life.
11. Death by His own death doing
To death, He won the day ;
Death’s might and strength undoing,
He rendered safe my way.