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Text:Eternal Power, Almighty God
Author:Anne Steele
Tune:SHEPHAM
Composer:Thomas Sanders Dupuis, 1730-1796
Media:MIDI file

9433. Eternal Power, Almighty God

1 Eternal power, almighty God,
Who can approach Thy throne?
Unfading light is Thine abode,
To mortal man unknown.

2 Before the radiance of Thine eye,
The heavens no longer shine;
And all the glories of the sky
Are but the shade of Thine.

3 Great God, and wilt Thou condescend
To cast a look below?
To this vile world Thy notice bend—
These seats of sin and woe.

4 How strange, how wondrous is Thy love!
With trembling we adore:
Not all the exalted minds above
Its wonders can explore.

5 While golden harps and angel tongues
Resound immortal lays,
Great God, permit our humble songs
To celebrate Thy praise.

Text Information
First Line: Eternal power, almighty God
Title: Eternal Power, Almighty God
Author: Anne Steele
Language: English
Source: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760
Tune Information
Name: SHEPHAM
Composer: Thomas Sanders Dupuis, 1730-1796
Meter: CM
Key: e minor
Copyright: Public Domain



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