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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>AWAKE, MY SOUL, STRETCH EVERY NERVE</h2><p align="center">
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<h3>“He wakens me morning by morning.” Isaiah 50:4</h3>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_d_o_doddridge_p.jpg" alt="Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)" width="129.333333333333" height="167.333333333333"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_o_doddridge_p.html" target="_blank">Philip Doddridge</a> (1702-1751). Published posthumously in <em>Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures</em>, by J. Orton, 1755.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Christmas,” George Frederick Handel, from the opera <em>Ciroë</em> (Cyrus), 1728; arranged in <em>Harmonia Sacra</em>, 1812 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_x_xmas.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve,<br>
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And press with vigor on;<br>
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A heavenly race demands thy zeal,<br>
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And an immortal crown,<br>
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And an immortal crown.</p>
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<p>A cloud of witnesses around<br>
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Hold thee in full survey;<br>
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Forget the steps already trod,<br>
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And onward urge thy way,<br>
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And onward urge thy way.</p>
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<p>’Tis God’s all animating voice<br>
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That calls thee from on high;<br>
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’Tis His own hand presents the prize<br>
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To thine aspiring eye.</p>
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<p>Then wake, my soul, stretch every nerve,<br>
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And press with vigor on,<br>
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A heavenly race demands thy zeal,<br>
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And an immortal crown.</p>
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