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Text:How condescending and how kind
Tune:CONDESCENSION
Media:MIDI file

312. How condescending and how kind

1.
How condescending and how kind
Was God's eternal son!
Our misery reached his heavenly mind,
And pity brought him down.

2.
When justice, by our sins provoked,
Drew forth its dreadful sword,
He gave his soul up to the stroke,
Without a murmuring word.

Text Information
First Line: How condescending and how kind
Title: How condescending and how kind
Meter: C.M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1854
Tune Information
Name: CONDESCENSION
Meter: C.M.
Incipit: 11554 56544



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MIDI file: Condescension.midi
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