When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Copywork
All five of Watts's stanzas, including the one most hymnals leave out
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About this printable
Isaac Watts at his most concentrated, given in full so students copy the poem as its author wrote it. The plain four-line stanzas and steady meter suit both beginning and advanced penmanship. A quiet, contemplative selection for Good Friday or a hymn-study unit. 13 pages, 1/4-inch letters in joined cursive on dashed manuscript lines. Sheets included: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only. Isaac Watts, 1707. Public domain text.
ON THIS SHEET: When I survey the wondrous cross · On which the Prince of glory died, · My richest gain I count but loss, · And pour contempt on all my pride. — Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, · Save in the death of Christ my God! · All the vain things that charm me most, · I sacrifice them to His blood. — See from His head, His hands, His feet, · Sorrow and love flow mingled down! · Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, · Or thorns compose so rich a crown? — His dying crimson, like a robe, · Spreads o'er His body on the tree; · Then am I dead to all the globe, · And all the globe is dead to me. — Were the whole realm of nature mine, · That were a present far too small; · Love so amazing, so divine, · Demands my soul, my life, my all. — Isaac Watts, 1707. LETTER SIZE: 1/4-inch. HANDWRITING: joined cursive. SHEETS: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only.
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