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Salvation! O, the joyful Sound;

Salvation.

Poet: Isaac Watts, 1707
Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)
Location in The Sacred Harp
Stanza Denson Cooper
1
Salvation! O, the joyful Sound;
'Tis Pleasure to our Ears;
A sov'reign Balm for ev'ry Wound,
A Cordial for our Fears.
Primrose 47t, Stanza 1
Salvation, O the Joyful Sound (Primrose) 47t, Stanza 1
2
Bury'd in Sorrow and in Sin,
At Hell's dark Door we lay;
But we arise by Grace divine
To see a heav'nly Day.
Primrose 47t, Stanza 2
Salvation, O the Joyful Sound (Primrose) 47t, Stanza 2
3
Salvation! let the Echo fly
The spacious Earth around,
While all the Armies of the Sky
Conspire to raise the Sound.
Primrose 47t, Stanza 3
Salvation, O the Joyful Sound (Primrose) 47t, Stanza 3
Watts, Isaac. Hymns and Spiritual Songs: In Three Books. 1773 ed. London: S. Strahan et. al., 1773.