The Church — Lord's Supper

Rock of Ages, cleft for me!

No. 1114
Metre 7s. 6l.
Tune ROCK OF AGES.
Words Augustus M. Toplady.
Music Thomas Hastings.
Key C major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 3/2
3 stanzas

Words

Rock of Ages, cleft for me!Let me hide myself in thee;Let the water and the blood,From thy wounded side that flowed,Be of sin the perfect cure;Save me, Lord, and make me pure.

Should my tears forever flow,Should my zeal no languor know,This, for sin, could not atone;Thou must save, and thou alone.In my hand no price I bring;Simply to thy cross I cling.

When my pilgrimage I close,Victor o'er the last of foes,When I soar to worlds unknown,See thee on thy Judgment throne,—Rock of Ages, cleft for me,Let me hide myself in thee.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHURCH—LORD'S SUPPER.»; hymn number «1114» (large), tune name «ROCK OF AGES. 7s. 6l.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «THOMAS HASTINGS.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is set between the staves: system 1 «1. Rock of A - ges, cleft for me! Let me hide my-self in thee;» with, under it in italics, «D. C.—Be of sin the per-fect cure; Save me, Lord, and make me pure.» (lines 5–6, sung to system 1 after the «D. C.»), system 2 «Let the wa - ter and the blood, From thy wound-ed side that flowed,»; it is given below with the syllables joined into whole words and the lines in the order sung (1–2, 3–4, then the D. C. lines 5–6). Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in the left column under the italic reference line «489, 685.» (= the same words may be sung to the tunes of hymns 489 or 685), numbered «2»–«3» without a period (numbered «2.»–«3.» here like stanza 1); all six lines of each stanza stand at the same margin. «Augustus M. Toplady.» in italics at the right after stanza 3. Stanza 3, line 5 is printed «Rock ofAges,» with no space between «of» and «Ages» (a spacing slip of the line; written «Rock of Ages,» here). The print sets a thin space before «!» and «;» («me !», «thee ;», «cure ;», «atone ;», «bring ;»); it is closed up here. Spelling, punctuation (the comma + dash in «throne,—»), capitals («Judgment») and «o'er» are the print's.