ON A HILL FAR AWAY STOOD AN OLD RUGGED CROSS, THE EMBLEM OF SUFF’RING AND SHAME; AND I LOVE THAT OLD CROSS WHERE THE DEAREST AND BEST FOR A WORLD OF LOST SINNERS WAS SLAIN. REFRAIN: SO I’LL CHERISH THE OLD RUGGED CROSS, TILL MY TROPHIES AT LAST I LAY DOWN; I WILL CLING TO THE OLD RUGGED CROSS, AND EXCHANGE IT SOMEDAY FOR A CROWN. OH, THAT OLD RUGGED CROSS, SO DESPISED BY THE WORLD, HAS A WONDROUS ATTRACTION FOR ME; FOR THE DEAR LAMB OF GOD LEFT HIS GLORY ABOVE TO BEAR IT TO DARK CALVARY. IN THAT OLD RUGGED CROSS, STAINED WITH BLOOD SO DIVINE, A WONDROUS BEAUTY I SEE, FOR ’TWAS ON THAT OLD CROSS JESUS SUFFERED AND DIED, TO PARDON AND SANCTIFY ME. TO THE OLD RUGGED CROSS I WILL EVER BE TRUE; ITS SHAME AND REPROACH GLADLY BEAR; THEN HE’LL CALL ME SOMEDAY TO MY HOME FAR AWAY, WHERE HIS GLORY FOREVER I’LL SHARE.
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