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{
"title": "Throned upon the awful tree",
"author": "",
"tune": "Arfon",
"number": "183",
"lyrics": "Throned upon the awful tree,\nKing of grief, I watch with thee.\nDarkness veils thine anguished face:\nNone its lines of woe can trace:\nNone can tell what pangs unknown\nHold thee silent and alone.\n\nSilent through those three dread hours,\nWrestling with the evil pow'rs,\nLeft alone with human sin,\nGloom around thee and within,\nTill th'appointed time is nigh,\nTill the Lamb of God may die.\n\nHark, that cry that peals aloud\nUpward through the whelming cloud!\nThou, the Father's only Son,\nThou, his own Anointed One,\nThou dost ask himcan it be?\n\"Why hast thou forsaken me?\"\n\nLord, should fear and anguish roll\nDarkly o'er my sinful soul,\nThou, who once wast thus bereft\nThat thine own might never be left,\nTeach me by that bitter cry\nIn the gloom to know thee nigh.",
"first_line": "Throned upon the awful tree,"
}