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My first must grace a legal deed,With its companion, firm and red;Its help in marriage, too, they need,Before the blessing can be said.My second half a hundred is,If in the shortest way you spell;You soon must guess me after this,I may as well the secret tell.My whole, by his celestial strainsBears the rapt soul to worlds above;The Great Creator’s power proclaims,And tells of the Redeemer’s love.
My first must grace a legal deed,With its companion, firm and red;Its help in marriage, too, they need,Before the blessing can be said.My second half a hundred is,If in the shortest way you spell;You soon must guess me after this,I may as well the secret tell.My whole, by his celestial strainsBears the rapt soul to worlds above;The Great Creator’s power proclaims,And tells of the Redeemer’s love.
My first must grace a legal deed,
With its companion, firm and red;
Its help in marriage, too, they need,
Before the blessing can be said.
My second half a hundred is,
If in the shortest way you spell;
You soon must guess me after this,
I may as well the secret tell.
My whole, by his celestial strains
Bears the rapt soul to worlds above;
The Great Creator’s power proclaims,
And tells of the Redeemer’s love.