He sent no angel to our race
of higher or of lower place,
but wore the robe of human frame
himself, and to this lost world came.
...For us baptized, for us he bore
his holy fast and hungered sore,
for us temptation sharp he knew;
for us the tempter overthrew.
For us he prayed; for us he taught;
for us his daily works he wrought;
by words and signs and actions thus
still seeking not himself, but us.