Choral Akari Archive

Savior, When in Dust to You

Hymn Information

Folder: Main II, no. 36
Tune used, name: 'Unknown tune (55557655)'; research in progress
Composer: research in progress
Lyricist: Grant, Robert (1779–1838); written in 1815
Copyright (tune): assumed public domain
Sources used for tune:

Source used for representative text: from hymnary.org, Christian Worship: Hymnal #393

Resources and Audios

Sheet music, project file and MIDI:

Audio files (separate parts for Lead, Accompaniment I, Accompaniment II and Bass):

Audio file (all parts combined):

Representative Text

1
Savior, when in dust to you
low we bow in homage due,
when, repentant, to the skies
scarce we lift our weeping eyes,
O, by all your pains and woe
suffered once for us below,
bending from your throne on high,
hear our penitential cry!

2
By your helpless infant years,
by your life of want and tears,
by your days of deep distress
in the savage wilderness,
by the dread, mysterious hour
of th'insulting tempter's pow'r,
turn, O turn a fav'ring eye,
hear our penitential cry!

3
By your hour of dire despair,
by your agony of prayer,
by the cross, the nail, the thorn,
piercing spear, and tort'ring scorn,
by the gloom that veiled the skies
o'er the dreadful sacrifice,
listen to our humble sigh,
hear our penitential cry!

4
By your deep expiring groan,
by the sad sepulchral stone,
by the vault whose dark abode
held in vain the rising God,
O, from earth to heav'n restored,
mighty, re-ascended Lord,
bending from your throne on high,
hear our penitential cry!