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Text: | With broken heart and contrite sigh |
Author: | Cornelius Elven |
Tune: | WOODWORTH |
Composer: | William B. Bradbury |
1 With broken heart and contrite sigh,
A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry;
Thy pardoning 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 |
Author: | Cornelius Elven |
Publication Date: | 1886 |
Topic: | The Sinner: Repentance and Acceptance |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WOODWORTH |
Composer: | William B. Bradbury |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: #624, 361, or 314. |