"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.
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come,
t'is grace that brought 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.
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.
Was blind, but now I see.
that saved a wretch like me,
I once was lost, but now am found,
was blind, but now I see.
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come,
t'is grace that brought 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.
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.
Was blind, but now I see.
Hermoso himno cristiano compuesto por John Newton y publicado en 1779. En él se recoge la experiencia del pecador arrepentido, que mediante la Gracia de Dios puede alcanzar la Salvación.
Newton tuvo una vida azarosa: tras una juventud marcada por la rebeldía, participó como marinero en la Royal Navy capturando y transportando esclavos. Estuvo a punto de morir en un naufragio y, finalmente, tras su conversión, fue ordenado sacerdote de la Iglesia de Inglaterra.
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