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Hymns / Music :: O Hope Of Every Contrite Heart

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"A broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise." Psalm 51:17

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Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) Words: Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th Century (Dulcis Jesu memoria); translated from Latin to ¡English by Edward Caswall, 1849. Though found in some hymnals as a separate hymn, these words are also part of Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee.

Music: "St. Agnes," John Bacchus Dykes, 1866


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John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876)

O hope of every contrite heart,
O joy of all the meek,
To those who fall, how kind Thou art!
How good to those who seek!

But what to those who find?
Ah this-Nor tongue nor pen can show;
The love of Jesus, what it is
None but His loved ones show.

Jesus, our only joy be Thou,
As Thou our prize will be;
Jesus, be Thou our glory now,
And through eternity.

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