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Thou trembling, pure, and holy thing!

What skill from ocean’s depths can bring,

Or toil from out the mine —

What monarch in his diadem,

Or glittering garb, produce a gem,

Whose brightness equals thine?

Thy source is deeper than the caves

Of riven rock, or opening waves,

Invisible as air:

And, though the angel throng above

Behold thee with delight and love,

They ne’er can have thee there.

Nor change, nor age thy sheen can dim;

Thou ’rt now unstained as when with him,

Who dared, in olden time,

Thrice his dear, suffering Lord deny;

Then, melted at the Saviour’s eye,

And paid thee for his crime.

Called from the treasures of the soul

By power divine, when thou dost roll

Forth from the mourner’s eye,

Thy wearer thou dost then proclaim

The heir of life, who has his name

Writ in the Book on high.

Thou art a pearl, that all may own,

And when thy matchless worth is known

To those, who wear thee here,

They will be changed, and shall behold

The shining gates of heaven unfold,

Bright Penitential Tear!