Text: | What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone |
Author: | Sir Edward Denny |
Tune: | EVAN |
Composer: | William H. Havergal |
1 What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone
Around thy steps below;
What patient love was seen in all
Thy life and death of woe.
2 For, ever on thy burdened heart
A weight of sorrow hung;
Yet no ungentle, murmuring word
Escaped thy silent tongue.
3 Thy foes might hate, despise, revile,
Thy friends unfaithful prove;
Unwearied in forgiveness still,
Thy heart could only love.
4 O, give us hearts to love like thee!
Like thee, O Lord, to grieve
Far more for others' sins, than all
The wrongs that we receive.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone |
Author: | Sir Edward Denny |
Publication Date: | 1886 |
Topic: | Christ: Life and Character |
Notes: | Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | EVAN |
Composer: | William H. Havergal |
Meter: | C.M. |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: #114, 147, or 227. |