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Text:Lo, What An Entertaining Sight
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:EAGLEY
Composer:James Walch
Media:MIDI file

16294. Lo, What An Entertaining Sight

1 Lo, what an en­ter­tain­ing sight
Are breth­ren that agree,
Brethren whose cheer­ful hearts unite
In bands of pi­ety!

2 When streams of love from Christ the spring
Descend to ev­ery soul,
And heav’n­ly peace with bal­my wing
Bedews and shades the whole.

3 ’Tis like the oil, di­vin­ely sweet
On Aar­on’s re­vere­nd head,
The trick­ling drops per­fumed his feet,
And o’er his gar­ments spread.

4 ’Tis plea­sant as the morn­ing dews
That fall on Si­on’s hill,
Where God His mild­est glo­ry shows,
And makes His grace dis­till.

Text Information
First Line: Lo, what an en­ter­tain­ing sight
Title: Lo, What An Entertaining Sight
Author: Isaac Watts (alt.)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: The Psalms of David 1719
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: DOWNS by Lowell Mason, DUNDEE from "Scottish Psalter," DUNFERMLINE from "Scottish Psalter," EARDISLEY - traditional tune
Tune Information
Name: EAGLEY
Composer: James Walch (1860)
Meter: CM
Key: B♭ Major



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