Of ev'ry boundary,
Eternal Life, Who stole our death
To plunder grave and hell,
Almighty God, Who as a Man
Did deign with us to dwell
Here making light of sufferings
And burdens we did own
Though not by jeering, but Your strength
In bearing every one.
Not death alone, but also sin --
First cause of ev'ry grief --
You carried off upon Your back
And brought us back relief.
Inverting poverty and wealth
To meet the debt accrued,
Becoming as we are, a slave
You paid what we owed You
As, turning barriers to doors,
Incarnate, dying, You
Made of divided natures one,
Partitions tore in two.
In furthest exile, shaming all
The distances we'd run,
You met us there, Who are our Home:
All banishment undone.
Your rising made of death a joke --
As well, mortality
Ascended to make all Your own
Share Your divinity
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