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But, ah! what numbers still are dead, Though under means of grace they lie! The dew still falling round their head, And yet their heart untouched and dry. Dear Saviour! hear us when we call, To wrestling pray’r an answer give; Pour down thy dew upon us all, That all may feel, and all may live.
But, ah! what numbers still are dead, Though under means of grace they lie! The dew still falling round their head, And yet their heart untouched and dry. Dear Saviour! hear us when we call, To wrestling pray’r an answer give; Pour down thy dew upon us all, That all may feel, and all may live.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- John Newton (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 186 · printed citation: John Newton · subject: DEW
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