Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That wakes a wretch like me
I once was lost, myself now found
Was fooled, but now I see.

T’was to fight that taught our hearts of fear
Yet to fight do fears relieve
The wretched’s choir did then arise
A new world to be the prize.

Max Lane, May, 2010, Melbourne, Australia

(Apologies and thank you to John Newton who wrote a beautiful hymn.)