Number 387
Ye Simple Souls Who Stray (Women’s Chorus)
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Ye Simple Souls Who Stray (Women’s Chorus)
1. Ye simple souls who strayFar from the path of peace,That lonely, unfrequented wayTo life and happiness,Why will ye folly loveAnd throng the downward road,And hate the widom from aboveAnd mock the sons of God?
2. Madness and miseryYe count our life beneath,And nothing great or good can seeOr glorious in our death;As only born to grieve,Beneath your feet we lie,And utterly contemned we live,And unlamented die.
3. So wretched and obscureThe man whom ye despise,So foolish, impotent, and poor,Above your scorn we rise.We through the Holy GhostCan witness better things;For he whose blood is all our boastHas made us priests and kings.
4. Riches unsearchableIn Jesus’ love we know,And pleasures springing from the wellOf life our souls o’erflow.The Spirit we receiveOf wisdom, grace, and power,And, though ’mid scenes of woe we live,Rejoicing evermore.