Rock of Ages
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee;
Let the water
and the blood,
From thy wounded side which flowed,
Be of sin the double
cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure.
Could my tears for ever
flow,
Could my zeal no languor know.
These for sin can not
atone;
Thou must save and thou alone:
In my hand no price I
bring,
Simply to thy cross I cling.
While I draw this fleeting
breath,
When my eyes shall close in death,
When I rise to worlds
unknown,
And behold thee on thy throne,
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let
me hide myself in thee.
by Augustus Montague Toplady, 1740-1778
Text From: The Lutheran Hymnal
(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1941)
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