
Author: Thomas Gibbons Hymnal: Village hymns for social worship, selected and original #457 (1824) Lyrics: 1 Oh, when shall Afric's sable sons
Enjoy the heav'nly word;
And vassals, long enslav'd, become
The freemen of the Lord?
2 When shall th' untutor'd Heathen tribes,
A dark, bewilder'd race,
Sit down at our Immanuel's feet,
And learn and sing his grace?
3 Haste sov'reign Mercy, and transform
Their cruelty to love;
Soften the tiger to a lamb,
The vulture to a dove.
O when shall Africa's sable race