Beneath the Cross of Jesus

Elizabeth C. Clephane

Beneath the cross of Jesus

I fain would take my stand,

The shadow of a mighty rock

Within a weary land;

A home within the wilderness,

A rest upon the way,

From the burning of the noontide heat,
and the burden of the day.

 

Upon the cross of Jesus,

mine eye at times can see

The very dying form of One

Who suffered there for me;

And from my stricken heart with tears

Two wonders I confess

The wonders of redeeming love
and my unworthiness.

 

I take, O cross, thy shadow

for my abiding place:

I ask no other sunshine than

The sunshine of His face;

Content to let the world go by

To know no gain nor loss,

My sinful self my only shame,

my glory, all the cross.