Why Does Your Face, Ye Humble Souls

Verse 1

Why does your face, ye humble souls,
Those mournful colours wear?
What doubts are these that waste your faith,
And nourish your despair?

Verse 2

What tho’ your numerous sins exceed
The stars that fill the skies,
And aiming at th’ eternal throne,
Like pointed mountains rise?

Verse 3

What tho’ your mighty guilt beyond
The wide creation swell,
And has its curs’d foundations laid
Low as the deeps of hell?

Verse 4

See here an endless ocean flows
Of never-failing grace,
Behold a dying Saviour’s veins
The sacred flood increase:

Verse 5

It rises high and drowns the hills,
‘T has neither shore nor bound:
Nor if we search to find our sins,
Our sins can ne’er be found.

Verse 6

Awake, our hearts, adore the grace
That buries all our faults,
And pardoning blood that swells above
Our follies and our thoughts.