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Text:The Past No Longer In My Power
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:LEST WE FORGET
Composer:George Frederic Blanchard
Media:MIDI file

11683. The Past No Longer In My Power

The past no longer in my power:
The future who shall live to see?
Mine only is the present hour,
Lent, to be all laid out for Thee:
Now, Savior, with Thy grace endowed,
Now let me serve and please my God.

Text Information
First Line: The past no longer in my power
Title: The Past No Longer In My Power
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: 88.88.88
Language: English
Source: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: LEST WE FORGET
Composer: George Frederic Blanchard (1898)
Meter: 88.88.88
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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