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Lord, Let Me Not Thy Courts Depart

Augustus Montague Toplady 1740 (Farnham, Surrey) – 1778

Lord, let me not thy courts depart,
Nor quit thy mercy-seat,
Before I feel thee in my heart,
And there the Saviour meet.

Water the seed in weakness sown,
And ever more improve:
Make me a garden of thine own;
May ev'ry flow'r be love!

O send my soul in peace away;
For both my Lord hath bought:
And let my heart, exhulting, say,
I've found the pearl I sought!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CXCX DXDX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 355
Words 72
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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Augustus Montague Toplady

Augustus Montague Toplady was an Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages". Three of his other hymns – "A Debtor to Mercy Alone", "Deathless Principle, Arise" and "Object of My First Desire" – are still occasionally sung today. more…

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