Lent
Savior When In Dust To Thee
- Words:
- Robert Grant, 1815, alt.
- Music:
- 'Aberystwyth (Parry)' Joseph Parry, 1879.
- Setting:
- "The English Hymnal", 1906.
- Metre:
- 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
- 1Savior, when in dust to TheeLow we bow th'adoring knee,When, repentant, to the skiesScarce we lift our weeping eyes,O by all the pains and woesSuffered once for man below,Bending from Thy throne on high,Hear our penitential cry!
- 2By Thy helpless infant years,By Thy life of want and tears,By Thy days of sore distressIn the savage wilderness,By the dread mysterious hourOf th'insulting tempter's pow'r,Turn, O turn a fav'ring eye,Hear our penitential cry!
- 3By the sacred griefs that wept O'er the grave where Laz'rus slept,By the boding tears that flowed Over Salem's loved abode,By the anguished sigh that told Treachery lurked within Thy fold,From Thy seat above the sky,Hear our penitential cry!
- 4By Thine hour of dire despair,By Thine agony of prayer,By the cross, the nail, the thorn,Piercing spear, and torturing scorn,By the gloom that veiled the skiesO'er the dreadful sacrifice,Listen to our humble cry,Hear our penitential cry!
- 5By Thy deep expiring groan,By the sad sepulchral stone,By the vault whose dark abodeHeld in vain the rising God,O from earth to heaven restored,Mighty, reascended Lord,Listen, listen to the sighOf our penitential cry!
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1815, the words are in 455 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Aberystwyth (Parry), is in 330 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.