O Blessed Day, When First Was Pour’d ANGELUS—Heilige Seelenlust, Breslau, 1657, ad. O Blessed Day, When First Was Pour’d 1 O Blessed day, when first was pour’d The Blood of our Redeeming Lord! O blessed day, when first began His sufferings borne for sinful man! 2 Scarce enter’d on this life of woe, His Infant Blood begins to flow; A foretaste of His death He feels An earnest of His love reveals. 3 From Hcav’n descending to fulfil The bidding of His Father’s Will A victim even now He lies