John Frederic Bennett
Look there! the Christ, our Brother, comes
Look there! the Christ, our Brother,
comes resplendent from the gallows tree
and what he brings in his hurt hands
is life on life for you and me.
Good Jesus Christ inside his pain
looked down Golgotha's stony slope
and let the blood flow from his flesh
to fill the springs of living hope.
Good Jesus Christ, our Brother died
in darkest hurt upon the tree
to offer us the worlds of light
that live inside the Trinity.
Look there! the Christ, our Brother,
comes resplendent from the gallows tree
and what he brings in his hurt hands
is life on life for you and me.
Joy! joy! joy to the heart
and all in this good day's dawning.
Joy! joy! joy to the heart
and all in this good day's dawning.
John Frederic Bennett was born March 12, 1920 in Pittsfield, Mass. He earned a B. A. from Oberlin College in 1942, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1950, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1956. He was a poet and an English professor at Indiana University (Jeffersonville), Beloit College, Rockford College (Illinois), and St. Norbert College. This hymn is #196 in the Episcopal Hymnal 1982.
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