What did you come to see?
A reed tossed in the wind?
A man in fine array?
A voice of one crying?
What did you come to see?
The horror of blood shed?
A corpse of suffering
With thorns upon His head?
What did you come to see?
A cross? A king? A thief?
Or did you come to see a Lamb
Bearing atonement's grief?
Why did you come to gaze
At heaven’s mercy-seat?
Was it your hatred or your love
That drew you to His feet?
What did you come to see
As He cried, ‘it is done’?
A man upon a tree
Or Jesus, God’s own Son?
© Janet Martin
