A Purple Robe, a Crown of Thorn

This powerful yet contemplative text for Holy Week comes from the master hymn writer, Timothy Dudley-Smith, and is set with all of the deserved emotion to a new melody for SATB choir by Lloyd Larson. The journey to the cross is expressed with emotional phrases that parallel poetically: "I see my Savior stand: I see my Savior go: I see my Savior die: I sing my Savior's name.