Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition
535 Shawmut
Words: Charles Wesley, 1749
Music: Lowell Mason, 1835
Meter: Short Meter (6,6,8,6)
O 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 with Thy 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 with Thy love’s resistless stroke,
And break this heart of stone.