Under the law with its ten-fold lash

Learning, alas, how true

That the more I tried

The sooner I died

While the law cried, "You! You! You!"

Helplessly still did the battle rage,

"Oh, wretched man," my cry.

And deliverance I sought

By some penance bought,

While my heart cried, "I! I! I!"

Then came a day when my struggling ceased,

And trembling in every limb

At the foot of the tree,

Where One died for me,

My soul cried, “He! He! He!”