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Text:Tossed On The Wide, Tempestuous Sea
Author:Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Tune:ALLEYNE
Composer:J. T. Nickens
Media:MIDI file

16283. Tossed On The Wide, Tempestuous Sea

1 Tossed on the wide tem­pes­tu­ous sea,
With nu­mer­ous wants op­pressed,
How wel­come must the har­bor be,
Of safe­ty and of rest!

2 Such is the world of bliss to those,
Who shall an en­trance find;
There storms and tem­pests, fears and foes,
No more dis­tress the mind.

3 There saints, nor sin nor sor­row know,
But taste un­min­gled love;
All that they wished or hoped below,
They now en­joy above.

Text Information
First Line: Tossed on the wide tem­pes­tu­ous sea
Title: Tossed On The Wide, Tempestuous Sea
Author: Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: ABRIDGE by Isaac Smith; ACUSHNET from "The Modern Hearp," ALENA from "The Sabbath Hymn and Tune book"
Tune Information
Name: ALLEYNE
Composer: J. T. Nickens
Meter: CM
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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