Classic Poem

Humanity hath sinned!
Not Adam, but the race has met its fall:
Life has gone out from earth,
Who shall that life recall?

He only who is man!
Man and yet God, — he can undo the fall
True flesh and blood of earth,
He can that life recall.

Creation has been struck!
Not Eden, but the universal earth;
All things beneath the sun
Are smitten from their birth.

He only loves and saves!
Whose cross hath borne creation's deadly wrong;
Whose blood shall purge away
Creation's stains ere long.

He, the last Adam, lives!
He died, was buried, and yet liveth still;
Victor o'er hellish hate,
Victor o'er human ill!

His life is life for us!
His joy, his crown, his glory are our own;
For us he fought the fight,
For us he won the throne.