LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| Writer(s): | Augustus Lucas Hillhouse
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | c.1816,1822-04
| Bible Refs: | Ps 89:14
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MUSIC
| Name: | SAMSON
| | Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| Writer(s): | George Frederick Handel
| Dates: |
|  Hymns of Faith
| 617
| D
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 572
| E
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 290
| Eb
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 418
| Eb
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 311
| F
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 683
| F
| | | 1. Trembling before Thine awful throne,
O Lord, in dust my sins I own;
Justice and mercy for my life
Contend; O smile, and heal the strife.
2. The Savior smiles; upon my soul
New tides of hope tumultuous roll;
His voice proclaims my pardon found,
Seraphic transport wings the sound.
3. Earth has a joy unknown to Heaven,
The newborn peace of sins forgiven;
Tears of such pure and deep delight,
Ye angels, never dimmed your sight.
4. Bright heralds of the eternal Will,
Abroad His errands ye fulfill;
Or, throned in floods of beamy day,
Symphonious in His presence play.
5. Loud is the song, the heavenly plain
Is shaken with the choral strain;
And dying echoes, floating far,
Draw music from each chiming star.
6. But I amid your choirs shall shine,
And all your knowledge shall be mine:
Ye on your harps must lean to hear
A secret chord that mine will bear.
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