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Text:Watched by the World's Malignant Eye
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:ST. PETERSBURG
Composer (attributed to):Dimitri Stepanovich Bortniansky
Media:MIDI file

7145. Watched by the World's Malignant Eye

1. Watched by the world’s malignant eye,
Who load us with reproach and shame.
As servants of the Lord most high,
As zealous for His glorious name,
We ought in all His paths to move,
With holy fear and humble love.

2. That wisdom, Lord, on us bestow,
From every evil to depart;
To stop the mouth of every foe,
While, upright both in life and heart,
The proofs of godly fear we give,
And show them how the Christians live.

Text Information
First Line: Watched by the world's malignant eye
Title: Watched by the World's Malignant Eye
Author: Charles Wesley (1762)
Meter: 88.88.88
Language: English
Source: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture, 1762
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ST. PETERSBURG
Composer (attributed to): Dimitri Stepanovich Bortniansky (1825)
Meter: 88.88.88
Incipit: 53451 21715 61653
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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