Before it be too late,

Or else you’ll weep, lament and cry,

Lost in a ruin’d state.

William Walker claims this song. See ‘Church’s Desolation’, a variant of the tune, for source references. See also ‘Sweet William and Lady Margery’ (Wyman and Brockway, p. 94) for a secular tune variant.

No. 30
[CONDESCENSION], GOS 656

Hexatonic, mode 1 b (I II — IV V VI 7)

How condescending and how kind

Was God’s eternal Son!

Our mis’ry reach’d his heav’nly mind