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562 Mournful Joy

Words: John Newton, 1779

Music: William Cleary, 2018

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

Copyright: 2025 Sacred Harp Publishing Company

Alas! I knew not what I did;
But now my tears are vain:
Where shall my trembling soul be hid?
For I the Lord have slain!
Thus, while His death my sin displays
In all its blackest hue,
Such is the myst’ry of His grace,
It seals my pardon too.