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Salvation? Oh the joyful sound!

'Tis pleasure to our ears,

A healing balm for ev'ry wound,

A comfort for our fears.

Salvation! let the echo fly

The spacious earth around,

While all the Angels of the sky,

Assist to swell the sound.

Salvation! Oh Thou Heav'nly Lamb!

To Thee the praise belongs;

Salvation shall inspire our hearts,

And dwell upon our tongues.

Saviour! When in dust to Thee

Lo we bow th' adoring knee,

When repentant, to the skies

Scarce we lift our weeping eyes,

O by all Thy pains and woe

Suffer'd once for man below,

Bending from Thy throne on high,

Hear our solemn Litany!

By Thy helpless infant years,

By Thy life of want and tears,

By Thy days of sore distress

In the lonely wilderness,

By the dread mysterious hour

Of th' insulting Tempter's pow'r,

Turn O turn a fav'ring eye,

Hear our solemn Litany!