What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone
What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone. Sir Edward Denny* (1796-1889).
From Denny’s A Selection of Hymns (1839), and reprinted in his Hymns and Poems (1848), where it was entitled ‘The Forgiving One’, and preceded by the quotation ‘“Grace is poured into thy lips.” – Psalm xlv.2.’ It had five stanzas:
What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone Around thy steps below;What patient love was seen in all Thy life and death of woe!
For ever on Thy burdened heart A weight of sorrow hung,Yet no ungentle, murmuring word Escaped Thy silent tongue.
Thy foes might hate, despise, revile, Thy friends unfaithful prove;Unwearied in forgiveness still, Thy heart could only love.
O give us hearts to love like...
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