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Text:Can We Forget?
Author:Wm. Mitchell
Tune:CHINA
Composer:Timothy Swan

410. Can We Forget?

1 Jesus, thy love can we forget,
And never bring to mind
The grace that paid our hopeless debt,
And bade us pardon find?

2 Shall we thy life of grief forget,
Thy fasting and thy pray'r,
Thy locks with mountain vapors wet,
To save us from despair?

3 Gethsemane can we forget
Thy struggling agony
When night lay dark on Olivet,
And none to watch with thee?

4 Our sorrows and our sins were laid
On Thee, alone on thee;
Thy precious blood our ransom paid
Thine all the glory be!

Text Information
First Line: Jesus, thy love can we forget
Title: Can We Forget?
Author: Wm. Mitchell
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Christ: Christ's Life and Love
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: CHINA
Composer: Timothy Swan
Meter: C. M.
Key: Bâ™­ Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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