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VERSE 1
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise;
in all his words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways!
VERSE 2
O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
VERSE 3
O wisest love! that flesh and blood,
which did in Adam fail
should strive afresh against the foe,
should strive, and should prevail.
VERSE 4
And that the highest gift of grace
should flesh and blood refine:
God's presence and his very self
and essence all divine.
VERSE 5
O generous love! that he who smote
in man for man the foe,
the double agony in Man
for man should undergo.
VERSE 6
And in the garden secretly,
and on the cross on high,
should teach his brethren, and inspire
to suffer and to die.
