O sacred head, now wounded,
With grief and shame bowed down;
Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, thy only crown.


Passion Chorale (1656), based on twelfth-century Latin hymn, st. 1

Paul Gerhardt Quotes

O sacred head, now wounded, With grief and shame bowed down; Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, thy only crown.

O sacred head, now wounded, With grief and shame bowed down; Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, thy only crown.

O sacred head, now wounded, With grief and shame bowed down; Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, thy only crown.

O sacred head, now wounded, With grief and shame bowed down; Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, thy only crown.