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Salvation! O the joyful sound! ’Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov’reign balm for every wound, A cordial for our fears. Buried in sorrow and in sin, At hell’s dark door we lay; But we arise by grace divine To see a heavenly day. Salvation! let the echo fly The spacious earth around, While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound.
Salvation! O the joyful sound! ’Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov’reign balm for every wound, A cordial for our fears. Buried in sorrow and in sin, At hell’s dark door we lay; But we arise by grace divine To see a heavenly day. Salvation! let the echo fly The spacious earth around, While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 519 · printed citation: Watts · subject: SALVATION
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