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<h2>O COULD I SPEAK THE MATCHLESS WORTH</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“How good it is to sing praises to our God.” Psalm 147:1</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_m_e_medley_s.gif" alt="Samuel Medley (1738-1799)" width="130" height="188"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_e_medley_s.html" target="_blank">Samuel Medley</a>; first appeared in <em>Hymns: The Public Worship and Private Devotions of True Christians, Assisted in some Thoughts and Verse; Principally Drawn from Select Passages of the Word of God</em>, 1789 (enlarged edition, 1794).
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Ariel,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mason_l.html" target="_blank">Lowell Mason</a>, 1836 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_a_ariel.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 align="center" width="181"><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_m_a_mason_l.jpg" alt="Lowell Mason (1792-1872)" width="120.666666666667" height="163.333333333333"><br>
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<span class="cou">Courtesy of Yale Divinity Library</span></td>
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<p class="just"><em>Note:</em> Some hymnals attribute the tune to Mozart, and the beginning of the first phrase does resemble the opening of the duet “Bei M<>nnern, welche Liebe” for Papageno and Pamina in Mozart’s “Die Zauberfl<66>te.” However, the remainder of the melody is Mason’s own.</p>
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<p>O could I speak the matchless worth,<br>
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O could I sound the glories forth which in my Savior shine!<br>
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I’d sing His glorious righteousness, and magnify the wondrous grace<br>
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Which made salvation mine, which made salvation mine.</p>
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<p>I’d sing the precious blood He spilt,<br>
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My ransom from the dreadful guilt of sin, and wrath divine;<br>
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I’d sing His glorious righteousness, in which all perfect, heavenly dress<br>
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My soul shall ever shine, my soul shall ever shine.</p>
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<p>I’d sing the characters He bears,<br>
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And all the forms of love He wears, exalted on His throne;<br>
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In loftiest songs of sweetest praise, I would to everlasting days<br>
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Make all His glories known, make all His glories known.</p>
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<p>Soon, the delightful day will come<br>
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When my dear Lord will bring me home, and I shall see His face;<br>
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Then with my Savior, Brother, Friend, a blessed eternity I’ll spend,<br>
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Triumphant in His grace, triumphant in His grace.</p>
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<p><em>The original first verse</em>:</p>
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<p>Oh could I speak the matchless worth,<br>
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Oh could I sound the glories forth,<br>
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Which in my Saviour shine!<br>
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I’d soar, and touch the heavenly strings<br>
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And vie with Gabriel while he sings<br>
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In notes almost divine.</p>
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