LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
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| | Dates: | 1707
| | Bible Refs: | Song 5:9-16
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1
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| 75
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MUSIC
 Songs of Fellowship 1
| 301
| C
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 645
| C
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 22
| C
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 190
| C
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 240
| C
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 433
| C
| Hymns and Songs
| 20
| C
| Living Praise
| 123
| D
| Baptist Hymnal
| 102
| D
| Baptist Hymnal
| 247
| D
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 676
| D
| Hymns of Faith
| 233
| D
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 272
| D
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 628
| D
| Believers Hymn Book
| 403
| D
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Alternate Tunes
| ABINGDON | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | A Compilation of Genuine Churc | | WINCHESTER NEW | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | Chorale in Musikalisch Handbuch & William Henry Havergal |
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| 1. The wond’ring world
inquires to know
Why I should love my Jesus so:
“What are His charms,”
say they, “above
The objects of a mortal love?”
2. Yes! my Belovèd, to my sight
Shows a sweet mixture,
red and white:
All human beauties, all divine,
In my Belovèd meet and shine.
3. White is His soul, from blemish free;
Red with the blood He shed for me;
The fairest of ten thousand fairs;
A sun among ten thousand stars.
4. His head the finest gold excels;
There wisdom in perfection dwells,
And glory like a crown adorns
Those temples once
beset with thorns.
5. Compassions in His heart are found,
Hard by the signals of His wound:
His sacred side no more shall bear
The cruel scourge, the piercing spear.
6. His hands are fairer to behold
Than diamonds set in rings of gold;
Those heav’nly hands, that on the tree
Were nailed, and torn,
and bled for me!
7. Though once He bowed
His feeble knees,
Loaded with sins and agonies,
Now on the throne of His command
His legs like marble pillars stand.
8. His eyes are majesty and love,
The eagle tempered with the dove;
No more shall trickling sorrows roll
Through those dear
windows of His soul.
9. His mouth, that poured
out long complaints,
Now smiles and
cheers His fainting saints;
His countenance more graceful is
Than Lebanon with all its trees.
10. All over glorious is my Lord;
Must be beloved, and yet adored;
His worth if all the the nations knew,
Sure the whole earth
would love Him, too.
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