"Thorns" by Kathy Rice Grimm, oil pastel on paper canvas

Come to Calvary's Holy Mountain
Come to Calvary's holy mountain, Sinners ruined by the Fall;
Here a pure and healing fountain Flows to you, to me to all,
In a full, perpetual tide, Opened when our Savior died.

Come in poverty and meaness, Come defiled, without, within;
From infection and uncleaness, From the leprosy of sin,
Wash your robes and make them white; Ye shall walk with God in light.

Come in sorrow and contrition, Wounded, impotent, and blind;
Here the guilty free remission, Here the troubled peace, may find.
Health this fountain will restore; He that drinks shall thirst no more.

He that drinks shall live forever; 'Tis a soul renewing flood.
God is faithful; God will never Break His covenant of blood,
Signed when out Redeemer died, Sealed when He glorified. A-men.

by James Montgomery, 1819
and Ludvig M. Lindeman, 1872