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COLUMBUS.
C.
M.
D.
"
Now
the
just
shall
live
by
faith
:
but
if
any
man
draw
back,
my
soul
shall
have
no
pleasure
in
him."-
HEB.
10:
38.
Key
of
F♯
Minor.
MERCER'S
"Cluster,"
page
383.
1. Oh,
once
I
had
a
glo-rious
view
Of
my
re-deem-ing
Lord,
He
said,
I'll
be
a
God
to
you,
And
I
be-lieved
His
word.
But
now
I
have
a
deep-er
stroke
Than
all
my
groan-ings
are;
My
2. Oh,
what
im
-
mor-tal
joys
I
felt
On
that
ce
-
les
- tial
day,
When
my
hard
heart
be-gan
to
melt,
By
love
dis-solved
a
-
way!
But
my
com-plaint
is
bit
-
ter
now,
For
all
my
joys
are
gone;
I've
God
has
me
of
late
for-sook,
He's
gone,
I
know
not
where.
where.
strayed!
I'm
left!
I
know
not
how:
The
light's
from
me
withdrawn.
3
Once
I
could
joy
the
saints
to
meet,
To
me
they
were
most
dear;
I
then
could
stoop
to
wash
their
feet,
And
shed
a
joyful
tear;
But
now
I
meet
them
as
the
rest,
And
with
them
joyless
stay;
My
conversation's
spiritless,
Or
else
I've
naught
to
say.
4
I
once
could
mourn
o'er
dying
men,
And
longed
their
souls
to
win;
I
travailed
for
their
poor
children,
And
warned
them
of
their
sin;
But
now
my
heart's
so
careless
grown,
Although
they're
drowned
in
vice,
My
bowels
o'er
them
cease
to
yearn-
My
tears
have
left
mine
eyes.
5
I
forward
go
in
duty's
way,
But
can't
perceive
him
there;
Then
backward
on
the
road
I
stray,
But
cannot
find
him
there;
On
the
left
hand,
where
he
doth
work,
Among
the
wicked
crew,
And
on
the
right
I
find
him
not
Among
the
favored
few.
6
What
shall
I
do
?-shall
I
lie
down
And
sink
in
deep
despair;
Will
He
forever
wear
a
frown,
Nor
hear
my
feeble
prayer?
No;
He
will
put
His
strength
in
me,
He
knows
the
way
I've
strolled,
And
when
I'm
tried
sufficiently
I
shall
come
forth
as
gold.
The
words
in
the
above
hymn
are
selected
from
Mercer's
"Cluster,"
by
Jesse
Mercer,
of
Powellton,
Ga.,
1823.
The
title
of
the
hymn
was
"Perplexed,
But
Not
In
Despair."
"Columbus"
is
one
of
the
good
old
tunes,
but
the
author's
name
is
unknown.
It
was
published
in
1835
in
"Southern
Harmony,"
by
William
Walker,
page
55.