from the hymn: Amazing Grace

From the hymn AMAZING GRACE.


Amazing grace! How sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!

Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
‘Tis grace hath bro’t me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we first begun. Amen.


Text by John Newton

I sometimes arrange hymns, or parts of hymns, to poetry. Amazing Grace is a true-story song written in 1773, yet it is loved by Christians the world over today; it praises God for saving a sinner, and for leading him home through this often stormy path called life.