Amazing grace! How sweet the sound ’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, Through many dangers, toils and snares, The Lord has promised good to me, Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, Who called me here below,
Shall be forever mine.
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.