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Text: | My song is love unknown |
Author: | Samuel Crossman, c. 1624-1684 |
Tune: | LOVE UNKNOWN |
Composer: | John Ireland, 1879-1962 |
1 My song is love unknown,
my Saviour’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown,
that they might lovely be.
O who am I, that for my sake,
my Lord should take frail flesh and die?
2 He came from his blest throne,
salvation to bestow;
but man refused, and none
the longed-for Christ would know.
But O, my friend, my friend indeed,
who at my need his life did spend!
3 Sometimes they strew his way,
and his sweet praises sing;
resounding all the day
hosannas to their King:
then, 'Crucify!' is all their breath,
and for his death they thirst and cry.
4 Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
he gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries! Yet they at these
themselves displease, and 'against him rise.
5 They rise, and needs will have
my dear Lord made away;
a murderer they save,
the Prince of Life they slay.
Yet cheerful he to suffering got,
and he his foes from thence might free.
6 Here might I stay and sing,
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King,
never was grief like thine.
This is my friend in whose sweet praise
I all my days could gladly spend.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My song is love unknown |
Title: | My song is love unknown |
Author: | Samuel Crossman, c. 1624-1684 |
Meter: | 66 66 44 44 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2000 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Passiontide; Year A: Dedication Festival; Year A: Palm Sunday: Liturgy of the Passion(5 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LOVE UNKNOWN |
Composer: | John Ireland, 1879-1962 |
Meter: | 66 66 44 44 |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | © The John Ireland Trust |
Notes: | A higher setting will be found at No. 209 |