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Text:While I Keep Silence, and Conceal
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:BERA
Composer:John Edgar Gould
Media:MIDI file

7399. While I Keep Silence, and Conceal

1. While I keep silence, and conceal
My heavy guilt within my heart,
What torments doth my conscience feel!
What agonies of inward smart!

2. I spread my sins before the Lord,
And all my secret faults confess;
Thy Gospel speaks a pardoning word,
Thine Holy Spirit seals the grace.

3. For this shall every humble soul
Make swift addresses to Thy seat;
When floods of huge temptations roll,
There shall they find a blest retreat.

4. How safe beneath Thy wings I lie,
When days grow dark and storms appear;
And when I walk, Thy watchful eye
Shall guide me safe from every snare.

Text Information
First Line: While I keep silence, and conceal
Title: While I Keep Silence, and Conceal
Author: Isaac Watts (1719)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: The Psalms of David, 1719
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: BERA
Composer: John Edgar Gould (1849)
Meter: LM
Incipit: 33215 52343 11653
Key: Eā™­ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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