Faithful Cross, O Tree all beauteous,
Tree all peer-less and divine!
Not a grove on earth can show us
Such a flow'r and leaf as thine.
Sweet the nails and sweet the wood,
Laden with so sweet a load.
Sweet the nails and sweet the wood,
La-den with so sweet a load.

Lofty Tree, bent down by branches,
To embrace thy sacred load;
O, relax the native tension
Of that all too rigid wood.
Gently, gently bear the members
Of thy dying King and God.
Gently, gently bear the members
Of thy dying King and God.

Tree, which solely wast found worthy
Th'world's great victim to sustain;
Harbour from the raging tempest
Ark, that saved the world again!
Tree, with sacred blood anointed
Of the Lamb for sinners slain.
Tree, with sacred blood anointed
Of the Lamb for sinners slain.