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==General information== | ==General information== | ||
This is a poem by [[Isaac Watts]], from ''Horaae Lyricae'', 1706, entitled ''Confession and Pardon''. | |||
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==Text and translations== | ==Text and translations== | ||
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1. Alas, my aching heart! | |||
Here the keen torment lies; | |||
It racks my waking hours with smart, | |||
And frights my slumbering eyes. | |||
2. Guilt will be hid no more; | |||
{{ | My griefs take vent apace; | ||
The crimes that blot my conscience o'er | |||
Flush crimson in my face. | |||
}} | |||
3. My sorrows, like a flood, | |||
Impatient of restraint, | |||
Into Thy bosom, O my God, | |||
Pour out a long complaint. | |||
4. This impious heart of mine | |||
Could once defy the Lord; | |||
Could rush with violence on to sin. | |||
In presence of Thy sword. | |||
5. How often have I stood | |||
A rebel to the skies, | |||
The calls, the tenders, of a God, | |||
And mercy's loudest cries! | |||
6. He offers all his grace, | |||
And all his heaven to me; | |||
Offers! But 'tis to senseless brass, | |||
That cannot feel nor see.}} | |||
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7. Jesus, the Savior, stands | |||
To court me from above, | |||
And looks and spreads his wounded hands. | |||
And shows the prints of love. | |||
8. But I, a stupid fool, | |||
How long have I withstood | |||
The blessings purchased with his soul, | |||
And paid for all in blood! | |||
9. The heavenly Dove came down | |||
And tendered me his wings, | |||
To mount me upward to a crown, | |||
And bright immortal things. | |||
10. Lord, I'm ashamed to say | |||
That I refused Thy Dove, | |||
And sent Thy Spirit grieved away, | |||
To his own realms of love. | |||
11. Not all thine heavenly charms, | |||
Nor terrors of Thy hand, | |||
Could force me to lay down my arms, | |||
And bow to Thy command. | |||
12. Lord, 'tis against Thy face | |||
My sins like arrows rife, | |||
And yet, and yet (O matchless grace!) | |||
Thy thunder silent lies.}} | |||
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13. O shall I never feel | |||
The meltings of Thy love! | |||
Am I of such hell-hardened steel | |||
That mercy cannot move ? | |||
14. Now, for one powerful glance, | |||
Dear Savior, from Thy face! | |||
This rebel heart no more withstands, | |||
But sinks beneath Thy grace. | |||
15. Overcome by dying love I fall; | |||
Here at Thy cross I lie: | |||
And throw my flesh, my soul, my all, | |||
And weep, and love, and die. | |||
16. “Rise,” says the Prince of Mercy, “Rise, | |||
(With joy and pity in his eyes) | |||
“Rise and behold my wounded veins: | |||
Here flows the blood to wash thy stains.” | |||
17. “See my great Father reconciled,” | |||
He said. And lo, the Father smiled; | |||
The joyful cherubs clapped their wings, | |||
And sounded grace on all their strings!}} | |||
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==External links == | ==External links == |
Revision as of 16:44, 18 September 2015
General information
This is a poem by Isaac Watts, from Horaae Lyricae, 1706, entitled Confession and Pardon.
Settings by composers
- Samuel Babcock — Hamburg English STB
- Samuel Babcock — Weston English SATB
- Daniel Belknap — Roxbury (1802) English SATB
- Oliver Brownson — Norwich English SATB
- Jacob French — Conviction English SATB
- Oliver Holden — Contrition English SATB
- Samuel Holyoke — Medford English SATB
- Stephen Jenks — New Suffield English SATB
- Timothy Swan — Boxford English SATB
Text and translations
English text 1. Alas, my aching heart! |
7. Jesus, the Savior, stands |
13. O shall I never feel |
External links
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