“The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call'd me here below,
Will be forever mine.”

—  John Newton, Olney Hymns

Olney Hymns (1779), Amazing Grace

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Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer 1725–1807

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