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221 | Laudes Domini#222 | 223 |
Text: | The load of Sin |
Author: | Anne Steele |
Tune: | BALERMA |
Composer: | H. Wilson |
1 How helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart, unchanged, can never rise
To happiness and God.
2 Can aught, beneath a power divine,
The stubborn will subdue?
'Tis thine, almighty Spirit! thine,
To form the heart anew.
3 'Tis thine, the passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise;
To make the scales of error fall
From reason's darkened eyes;
4 To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live;
A beam of heaven, a vital ray,
'Tis thine alone to give.
5 Oh, change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine;
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord! be thine.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How helpless guilty nature lies |
Title: | The load of Sin |
Author: | Anne Steele |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1890 |
Topic: | The Gospel: Atonement Needed; Atonement: Necessary; Heart: Change of(3 more...) |