Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition
535 Shawmut
Tune: Lowell Mason
Words: Charles Wesley, 1759
Meter: Short Meter (6,6,8,6)
Oh that I could repent!
With all my idols part,
And to Thy gracious eye present,
A humble contrite heart.
A heart with grief oppressed,
For having grieved my God;
A troubled heart that cannot rest,
Till sprinkled with Thy blood.
Jesus on me bestow
The penitent desire:
With true sincerity of woe
My aching breast inspire.
With soft’ning pity look,
And melt my hardness down;
Strike the love’s resistless stroke,
And break this heart of stone.
With all my idols part,
And to Thy gracious eye present,
A humble contrite heart.
A heart with grief oppressed,
For having grieved my God;
A troubled heart that cannot rest,
Till sprinkled with Thy blood.
Jesus on me bestow
The penitent desire:
With true sincerity of woe
My aching breast inspire.
With soft’ning pity look,
And melt my hardness down;
Strike the love’s resistless stroke,
And break this heart of stone.