{
  "title": "O Lord, how shall I meet thee",
  "author": "",
  "tune": "St. Theodulph",
  "number": "119",
  "lyrics": "O Lord, how shall I meet thee,\nHow welcome thee aright?\nThy people long to greet thee,\nMy hope, my heart's delight!\nO, kindle, Lord, most holy,\nThy lamp within my breast\nTo do in spirit lowly\nAll that may please thee best.\n\nLove caused thine incarnation,\nLove brought thee down to me;\nThy thirst for my salvation\nProcured my liberty.\nO love beyond all telling,\nThat led thee to embrace,\nIn love all love excelling,\nOur lost and fallen race!\n\nRejoice, then, ye sad-hearted,\nWho sit in deepest gloom,\nWho mourn o'er joys departed\nAnd tremble at your doom.\nDespair not, he is near you,\nYea, standing at the door,\nWho best can help and cheer you\nAnd bids you weep no more.\n\nSin's debt, that fearful burden,\nLet not your soul distress;\nYour guilt the Lord will pardon\nAnd cover by his grace.\nHe comes, for men procuring\nThe peace of sin forgiv'n,\nFor all God's sons securing\nTheir heritage in heav'n.",
  "first_line": "O Lord, how shall I meet thee,"
}