Amazing Grace

🕑: 3/4 CCLI: 2762836 url 🖉 John Newton © 1779 Public Domain

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Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) that sav'd a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see.

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'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears reliev'd;

How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believ'd!

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Thro' many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come;

'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.

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The Lord has promis'd good to me, His word my hope secures;

He will my shield and portion be as long as life endures.

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Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail, and mortal life shall cease;

I shall possess, within the veil, a life of joy and peace.

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The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, the sun forbear to shine;

But God, who call'd me here below, will be forever mine.

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When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun,

We've no less days to sing God's praise, than when we first begun.