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Hymn: O give me music its sweet tones (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: O give me music its sweet tones

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: George Prentice

Composer: A Fillmore

Meter:

Tune: O Give Me Music

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 021, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O, give me music!
its sweet tones will linger round my weary heart;
The only love my soul now owns
Is wakened by the minstrel's art.


O, give me music!
let the song Be plaintive as the ring-dove's moan,
For gloomy thoughts around me throng,
Which must be borne, but borne alone.


O, give me music!
It will bring All of the past I may not tell,
And o'er my broken spirit fling
Its holy and mysterious spell.


O, give me music!
In my breast Those sweet and thrilling tones of thine
Will make a hope brighter rest,
And banish all those tears of mine.