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Text: | With Broken Heart and Contrite Sigh |
Author: | C. Elven, 1791-1873 |
Tune: | ST. LUKE |
Composer: | J. Clarke, c. 1674-1707 |
1 With broken heart and contrite sigh,
A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry.
Thy pard'ning grace is rich and free--
O God, be merciful to me!
2 I smite upon my troubled breast,
With deep and conscious guilt oppressed;
Christ and His cross my only plea--
O God, be merciful to me!
3 Far off I stand with tearful eyes
Nor dare uplift them to the skies,
But Thou dost all my anguish see--
O God, be merciful to me!
4 Nor alms nor deeds that I have done
Can for a single sin atone.
To Calvary alone I flee--
O God, be merciful to me!
5 And when, redeemed from sin and hell,
With all the ransomed throng I dwell,
My raptured song shall ever be:
God has been merciful to me.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | With broken heart and contrite sigh |
Title: | With Broken Heart and Contrite Sigh |
Author: | C. Elven, 1791-1873 |
Meter: | L M |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Humility: Pharisee and Publican; Trinity 11 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. LUKE |
Composer: | J. Clarke, c. 1674-1707 |
Meter: | L M |
Key: | f minor |