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Text:Jesus, the first and last
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:ST. OLAVE
Composer:Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896
Media:MIDI file

11727. Jesus, the first and last

1 Jesus, the first and last,
On Thee my soul is cast:
Thou didst Thy work begin
By blotting out my sin;
Thou wilt the root remove,
Perfecting me in love.

2 Yet when the work is done,
The work is but begun:
Partaker of Thy grace,
I long to see Thy face;
The first I prove below,
The last I die to know.

Text Information
First Line: Jesus, the first and last
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 66.66.66
Language: English
Source: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ST. OLAVE
Composer: Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896
Meter: 66.66.66
Key: F Major or modal
Copyright: Public Domain



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