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<h2>BEGIN, MY TONGUE, SOME HEAVENLY THEME</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“May my tongue sing of Your Word.” Psalm 119:172</h3></p>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_a_watts_i.html" target="_blank">Isaac Watts</a>, <i>Hymns and Sacred Songs</i>, 1707.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Manoah,” arranged from Giaochino Antonio Rossini in <em>Collection of Church Music</em>, by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_g_r_greatorex_hw.html" target="_blank">Henry W. Greatorex</a>, 1851 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_m_manoah.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>Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme<br>
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And speak some boundless thing;<br>
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The mighty works, or mightier Name<br>
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Of our eternal King.</p>
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<p>Tell of His wonderful faithfulness<br>
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And sound His power abroad;<br>
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Sing the sweet promise of His grace,<br>
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The love and truth of God.<br>
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[<i>originally,</i> And the performing God]</p>
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<p>Proclaim “salvation from the Lord<br>
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For wretched, dying men”;<br>
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His hand has writ the sacred Word<br>
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With an immortal pen.</p>
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<p>Engraved as in eternal brass<br>
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The mighty promise shines;<br>
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Nor can the powers of darkness ‘rase<br>
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Those everlasting lines.</p>
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<p>He that can dash whole worlds to death,<br>
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And make them when He please,<br>
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He speaks, and that almighty breath<br>
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Fulfils His great decrees.</p>
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<p>His every word of grace is strong<br>
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As that which built the skies;<br>
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The voice that rolls the stars along<br>
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Speaks all the promises.</p>
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<p>He said, “Let the wide heav’n be spread,”<br>
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And heav’n was stretched abroad:<br>
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“Abram, I’ll be thy God,” He said,<br>
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And He was Abram’s God.</p>
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<p>O might I hear Thy heavenly tongue<br>
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But whisper, “Thou art Mine!”<br>
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Those gentle words shall raise my song<br>
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To notes almost divine.</p>
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<p>How would my leaping heart rejoice,<br>
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And think my heav’n secure!<br>
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I trust the all creating voice,<br>
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And faith desires no more.</p>
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