Hebrew Lyrics (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1861 Excerpt: ... Thee for ever will I seek Who alone hast right to bless My humbleness: Humble though I be and weak More weak should be, would I break Laws restraining less. Pour the dew of Thy favour, O LORD To invigorate these verses; Yes, shower down Thy mercies, -Thy mercies on me, And cause me to see I 've not trusted in vain on Thy Word. O arm me with answer to fling In the face of those wretches, Whose infamy stretches On faith to encroach And cast a reproach On the song of SALVATION x sing-O take not away from Thy child The armour protected, Their fury respected, The helmet of Youth, The buckler of Truth, Most dreaded when worst they reviled. In the garb of demure Innocence Which Thy goodness provided T was my weakness confided: Not from sinew and nerve Derived power to preserve But from string of Thy bow my defence. Thy book I will bind on my breast, Talisman that to danger Will make me a stranger, Before Rulers and Kings I will speak of such things, As Thy marvels of might shall attest. In a life that's as wretched as brief, Where 's the thought or the action Can give satisfaction; In sorrow and pain Can console and sustain Like Thy love where I look for relief? Enabled, ennobled thereby, My oraison 'a directed, By Contrition humected, With a crystalline tear From the blue fount and clear Of her pensive and penitent eye. Bra. O remember the promise Thou mad'stto my Youth, On which all my days have depended; Which soothed by Thy sooth, Were true to Thy Truth; Of which the conviction Enlivened affliction, In dread and in danger defended. Supercilious and mighty, malicious, morose, Have held in contempt and derision; But I held the more close To Thy laws that engross: In the day of probation I fled from temptation, Fled from treason and treason's misprision. At presu...