189    C.M.     Rozzell
Regeneration. Ps. 40. 3; John 3. 3; 1 Pet. 1. 23

1 O let my voice proclaim the joys
  My heart has known and felt;
  And let my tongue declare the woes
  My soul has known by guilt.

2 Long in the paths of sin I trod,
  And, in her foulest way,
  Provoked a kind and gracious God,
  And grieved him day by day.

3 I tried his patience with my crimes,
  By days and years of sin;
  Resolved to mend in aftertimes,
  And wash the leper clean.

4 [I tried, resolved, and toiled, and tugged,
  But filthier still I grew;
  My darling sins in secret hugged,
  Nor how to leave them knew.]

5 But when the Lord his arm made bare,
  And took my heart in hand,
  Effectual cleansing work was there,
  Which I could not withstand.

6 He doomed me in the dust to lie,
  In sorrows sharp and long;
  Then changed my sadness into joy,
  My mourning to a song.