LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Nicholas Brady & Nahum Tate
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| | Dates: | 1696
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 15
| A New Version of the Psalms of David
| 1821
| 15
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| 1. Lord, who's the happy man that may
to thy blest courts repair?
Not, stranger-like, to visit them,
but to inhabit there?
2. 'Tis he, whose ev'ry thought and deed
by rules of virtue moves;
Whose gen'rous tongue disdains to speak
the thing his heart disproves.
3. Who never did a slander forge
his neighbor's fame to wound;
Nor hearken to a false report,
by malice whispered round.
4. Who vice, in all its pomp and pow'r,
can treat with just neglect;
And piety, thought clothed in rags,
religiously respect.
5. Who to his plighted vows and trust
has ever firmly stood;
And, though he promise to his loss,
he makes his promise good.
6. Whose soul in usury disdains
his treasure to employ;
Who no rewards can ever bribe
the guiltless to destroy.
7. The man, who by this steady course
has happiness insured,
When earth's foundation shakes, shall stand,
by Providence secured.
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