Posted on 05/17/2021 5:35:17 PM PDT by EliRoom8
1 There is a green hill far away,
without a city wall,
where the dear Lord was crucified,
who died to save us all.
2 We may not know, we cannot tell,
what pains he had to bear;
but we believe it was for us
he hung and suffered there.
3 He died that we might be forgiv'n,
he died to make us good,
that we might go at last to heav'n,
saved by his precious blood.
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I remember that hymn from long ago, but had forgotten the melody. Thanks for posting.
There’s a Grassy Knoll Just Down the Street
Pardon me, but I immediately thought of The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A Heinlein, the poem within the story published February 8, 1947.
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One of my favorite versions of the song, by World Wide Message Tribe, a 1995 CCM hit.
The original song features lyrics from 1847 by Mrs. Cecil F. Alexander ... who wrote this hymn as she sat up one night with her seriously sick daughter. Many times when traveling to town she had passed a small grassy mound, just outside the old city wall of Derry, Ireland. It always made her think of Calvary, and it came to mind as she wrote this hymn. She published it in her Hymns for Little Children in 1848.
Very edifying to learn that. Thank you.
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