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12644 | The Cyber Hymnal#12645 | 12646 |
Text: | Have Mercy, Lord, On Us, We Pray |
Author: | Paul B. Henkel |
Tune: | WINDSOR |
Composer: | Christopher Tye |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Have mercy Lord, on us we pray,
Thy grace to us reveal;
O turn Thy plagues from us away
Tho’ we deserve them well.
2 Thy punishments are justly due,
And answer to our crimes!
And we are made to feel them too,
In these distressing times.
3 Lord, what destruction death has made,
How has it swept our towns;
So many numbered with the dead,
In neighboring places round.
4 Death visits us in all our homes,
And there makes his abode:
And hurries mortals to their tombs,
That sink beneath his load.
5 Well may we sorrow, weep and mourn,
And pray with all our heart:
That God in mercy may return,
1 And bid our plagues depart.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Have mercy Lord, on us we pray |
Title: | Have Mercy, Lord, On Us, We Pray |
Author: | Paul B. Henkel (alt.) |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Church Hymn Book (New Market, VA: Solomon Henkel, 1816) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: ABRIDGE by Isaac Smith, WALSALL attributed to Henry Purcell, YORK from Scottish "Psalter," 1615; Note: The 1816 edition of this hymnal does not name the author. Henkel’s son, Ambrose Henkel, identifies his father as the author by a double dagger symbol (‡) in the 1838 edition, page 440. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WINDSOR |
Composer: | Christopher Tye (1533) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | g minor |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer Score |