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Text:O How I Love Thy Holy Law
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:GARDINER
Composer:William Gardiner
Media:MIDI file

4971. O How I Love Thy Holy Law

1. O how I love Thy holy law!
’Tis daily my delight;
And thence my meditations draw
Divine advice by night.

2. My waking eyes prevent the day
To meditate Thy Word;
My soul with longing melts away
To hear Thy Gospel, Lord.

3. How doth Thy Word my heart engage!
How well employ my tongue!
And in my tiresome pilgrimage,
Yields me a heav’nly song.

4. Am I a stranger or at home,
’Tis my perpetual feast;
Not honey dropping from the comb
So much allures the taste.

5. No treasures so enrich the mind;
Nor shall Thy Word be sold
For loads of silver well refined,
Nor heaps of choicest gold.

6. When nature sinks, and spirits droop,
Thy promises of grace
Are pillars to support my hope,
And there I write Thy praise.

Text Information
First Line: O how I love Thy holy law
Title: O How I Love Thy Holy Law
Author: Isaac Watts (1719)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: The Psalms of David, 1719
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: GARDINER
Composer: William Gardiner (1812)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 12235 43223 21765
Key: A Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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