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Forgiveness! ’tis a joyful sound, To rebel sinners doomed to die: Publish the bliss the world around; Ye seraphs shout it from the sky! ’Tis the rich gift of love divine; ’Tis full—outmeasuring every crime; Unclouded shall its glories shine, And feel no change by changing time. For this stupendous love of heaven, What grateful honour shall we shew? Where much transgression is forgiven, Let love with equal ardour glow. Cheered by the hope of pardoning grace, We come Thy mercy, Lord, to prove; Like weeping Mary, let us taste A pledge of Thy forgiving love.
Forgiveness! ’tis a joyful sound, To rebel sinners doomed to die: Publish the bliss the world around; Ye seraphs shout it from the sky! ’Tis the rich gift of love divine; ’Tis full—outmeasuring every crime; Unclouded shall its glories shine, And feel no change by changing time. For this stupendous love of heaven, What grateful honour shall we shew? Where much transgression is forgiven, Let love with equal ardour glow. Cheered by the hope of pardoning grace, We come Thy mercy, Lord, to prove; Like weeping Mary, let us taste A pledge of Thy forgiving love.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Gibbons (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 233 · printed citation: Gibbons · subject: FORGIVENESS
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