I SEEMED TO HEAR


My body ached, “I can’t go on!”
Then it seemed I heard
The cutting lash fall on his back;
And he uttered not a word!


My heart was broken, I was so alone;
My friends all turned aside;
Then I seemed to hear an anguished voice
From one just crucified.


“Why hast thou forsaken me?”
It seemed I heard him moan;
Then I knew one understood;
He died so all alone!


Every time I stop, it seems,
A sound from Calvary,
Through years of time, falls on my ear;
A sound meant just for me!


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