Goshen (Stephen Jenks)

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Editor: Tim Risher (submitted 2011-05-06).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: The unusual sounding notes are correct - ie, m2, the C-G-F-C chord. The original is in e minor.

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Title: Gosen L.M.
Composer: Stephen Jenks

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Shape Notes

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1805

Description: Early American music; although not shapenote, his music appears in many later shapenote books.

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English text

1. O wash my soul from ev'ry sin,

  And make my guilty conscience clean;
  Here on my heart the burden lies,
  and past offences pain my eyes.

2. My lips with shame my sins confess

  Against thy law, against thy grace;
  Lord, should thy judgment grow severe,
  I am condem'd, but thou art clear.

3. Should sudden vengeance seize my breath,

   I must pronounce thee just in death;
   And if my soul were sent to hell,
   Thy righteous law approves it well.

4. Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord,

   Whose hope still hovering round thy word,
   Would light on some sweet promise there,
   Some sure support against despair.