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536 Sweet Majesty

Words: Isaac Watts, 1707

Music: A. M. Cagle, 1959

Meter: Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)

Copyright: 1960 Sacred Harp Publishing Company

Oh, the delights, the heav’nly joys,
The glories of the place
Where Jesus sheds the brightest beams
Of His o’erflowing grace!
Sweet majesty and awful love
Sit smiling on His brow,
And all the glorious ranks above
At humble distance bow.

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