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271b Restoration (First)

Words: John Cennick, 1741

Music: D. P. White, 1850

Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8)

How many years has man been driv’n,
Far off from happiness and heav’n;
When wilt Thou, gracious Lord,
Restore Thy wand’ring church to roam no more?

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