Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Oh what a thoughtless wretch was I (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: Oh what a thoughtless wretch was I

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: Reed

Meter: LM

Tune: Greenwitch

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 052, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Oh what a thoughtless wretch was I,

To mourn and murmur and repine,

To see the wicked, placed on high,

In pride and robes of honour shine!

But oh their end, their dreadful end!

Thy sanctuary taught me so;

On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,

And fiery billows roll below.