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Hymn: Soft be the gently breathing notes (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: Soft be the gently breathing notes

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 694

Page Number: 413, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Soft be the gently breathing notes

That sing the Savior's dying love;

Soft as the evening zephyr floats,

Soft as the tuneful lyres above,



Soft as the morning dews descend,

While the sweet lark exulting soars:

So soft to your Almighty friend

Be every sigh your bosom pours.



Pure as the sun's enliv'ning ray,

That scatters life and joy abroad;

Pure as the lucid car of day,

That wide proclaims its Maker God.



True as the magnet to the pole,

So true let your contrition be,

So true let all your sorrows roll

To him who bled upon the tree.