Text: | Regneration |
Alterer: | Rozzel |
1 O! let my voice proclaim the joys
My heart has known and felt;
And let my tongue declare the woes
My soul has known by guilt.
2 Long in the paths of sin I trod,
And, in her foulest way,
Provoked a kind and gracious God,
And grieved him day by day.
3 I tried his patience with my crimes,
By days and years of sin;
Resolved to mend in aftertimes,
And wash the leper clean.
4 [I tried, resolved, and toiled, and tugged,
But filthier still I grew;
My darling sins in secret hugged,
Nor how to leave them knew.]
5 But when the Lord his arm made bare,
And took my heart in hand,
Effectual cleansing work was there,
Which I could not withstand.
6 He doomed me in the dust to lie,
In sorrows sharp and long;
Then changed my sadness into joy,
My mourning to a song.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O! let my voice proclaim the joys |
Title: | Regneration |
Alterer: | Rozzel |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1844 |
Topic: | Regeneration and Conversion |