Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

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54 Russell

Words: Anne Steele, 1780

Music: J. M. Day, 1850

Meter: Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)

Ye humble souls, complain no more;
Let faith survey your future store;
How happy, how divinely blest,
The sacred words of truth attest!
When conscious grief laments sincere,
And pours the penitential tear,
Hope points to your dejected eyes
The bright reversion in the skies.