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<h2>GLORIOUS THINGS OF THEE ARE SPOKEN</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.” Psalm 87:3</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_n_e_newton_j.jpg" alt="John Newton (1725-1807)" width="133.333333333333" height="196"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_n_e_newton_j.html" target="_blank">John Newton</a>, <em>Olney Hymns</em> (London: W. Oliver, 1779).
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Austria,” arranged by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_a_haydn_fj.html" target="_blank">Franz Joseph Haydn</a>, 1797, possibly from a Croatian folk melody </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_a_austria.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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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_h_a_haydn_fj.jpg" alt="Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)" width="131.333333333333" height="189.333333333333"></td>
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<p class="just"><em>Historical Note:</em> Haydn originally adapted “Austria” for a patriotic song, “Gott, erhalte Franz, den Kaiser,” first performed for the emperor’s birthday, February 12, 1797. It is still used as the tune of the German song <em>Das Deutschlandlied</em>. Because of the associations the first stanza (“Deutschland, Deutschland <20>ber alles…”) developed with the Nazis, the third stanza
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(“Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit/F<>r das Deutsche Vaterland”) is the one now used for the German national anthem.</p>
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<p>Glorious things of thee are spoken,<br>
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Zion, city of our God!<br>
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He, Whose Word cannot be broken,<br>
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Formed thee for His own abode.<br>
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On the Rock of Ages founded,<br>
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What can shake thy sure repose?<br>
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With salvation’s walls surrounded,<br>
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Thou may’st smile at all thy foes.</p>
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<p>See! the streams of living waters,<br>
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Springing from eternal love;<br>
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Well supply thy sons and daughters,<br>
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And all fear of want remove:<br>
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Who can faint while such a river<br>
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Ever flows their thirst t’assuage?<br>
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Grace, which like the Lord, the Giver,<br>
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Never fails from age to age.</p>
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<p>Round each habitation hovering,<br>
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See the cloud and fire appear!<br>
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For a glory and a cov’ring<br>
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Showing that the Lord is near.<br>
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Thus deriving from our banner<br>
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Light by night and shade by day;<br>
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Safe they feed upon the manna<br>
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Which He gives them when they pray.</p>
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<p>Blest inhabitants of Zion,<br>
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Washed in the Redeemer’s blood!<br>
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Jesus, Whom their souls rely on,<br>
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Makes them kings and priests to God.<br>
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’Tis His love His people raises,<br>
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Over self to reign as kings,<br>
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And as priests, His solemn praises<br>
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Each for a thank offering brings.</p>
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<p>Savior, if of Zion’s city,<br>
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I through grace a member am,<br>
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Let the world deride or pity,<br>
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I will glory in Thy Name.<br>
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Fading is the worldling’s pleasure,<br>
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All his boasted pomp and show;<br>
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Solid joys and lasting treasure<br>
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None but Zion’s children know.</p>
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