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Repentance, bathe me in thy sea of tears! - ZaunköniG - 22.07.2007
Repentance, bathe me in thy sea of tears!
Ah touch my heart with purifying sway;
And let these stains my darken’d conscience bears,
By thy pale waters all be wash’d away;
Yet how can these remove Guilt’s gloomy die!
Oh how atone for oft repeated sin
Regardless of each warning from on high,
The call without the monitor within! –
Redeeming mercy – here alone the thought
Can rest in hope; - yet come Repentance, come,
With all thy tender melting sorrows fraught,
And guide this wand’ring heart. unto its home;
And while my own sad erring ways I grieve,
Ah may I others learn to pity and forgive.