{"slug": "not-what-these-hands-have-done", "title": "Not What These Hands Have Done", "first_line": "Not what these hands have done", "author": "horatius-bonar", "author_date": "1861", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [6, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Grace", "Salvation", "Faith"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), \"Not what these hands have done,\" from Hymns of Faith and Hope, Second Series (1861). Text from The Cyber Hymnal; the eight short-metre quatrains are sung paired as four S.M.D. stanzas to LEOMINSTER. All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Not what these hands have done Can save this guilt -- y soul; Not what this toil -- ing flesh has borne Can make my spir -- it whole. Not what I feel or do Can give me peace with God; Not all my prayers and sighs and tears Can bear my aw -- ful load.", "prose": ["Not what these hands have done", "Can save this guilty soul;", "Not what this toiling flesh has borne", "Can make my spirit whole.", "Not what I feel or do", "Can give me peace with God;", "Not all my prayers and sighs and tears", "Can bear my awful load."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Thy work a -- lone, O Christ, Can ease this weight of sin; Thy blood a -- lone, O Lamb of God, Can give me peace with -- in. Thy love to me, O God, Not mine, O Lord, to Thee, Can rid me of this dark un -- rest, And set my spir -- it free.", "prose": ["Thy work alone, O Christ,", "Can ease this weight of sin;", "Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,", "Can give me peace within.", "Thy love to me, O God,", "Not mine, O Lord, to Thee,", "Can rid me of this dark unrest,", "And set my spirit free."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Thy grace a -- lone, O God, To me can par -- don speak; Thy power a -- lone, O Son of God, Can this sore bond -- age break. I bless the Christ of God; I rest on love di -- vine; And with un -- fal -- t'ring lip and heart I call this Sav -- iour mine.", "prose": ["Thy grace alone, O God,", "To me can pardon speak;", "Thy power alone, O Son of God,", "Can this sore bondage break.", "I bless the Christ of God;", "I rest on love divine;", "And with unfalt'ring lip and heart", "I call this Saviour mine."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "His cross dis -- pels each doubt; I bur -- y in His tomb Each thought of un -- be -- lief and fear, Each lin -- g'ring shade of gloom. I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine, My God, my joy, my light.", "prose": ["His cross dispels each doubt;", "I bury in His tomb", "Each thought of unbelief and fear,", "Each ling'ring shade of gloom.", "I praise the God of grace;", "I trust His truth and might;", "He calls me His, I call Him mine,", "My God, my joy, my light."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}