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Text:God is Love: His mercy brightens
Author:Sir John Bowring
Tune:STUTTGART

78. God is Love: His mercy brightens

1 God is Love: His mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove;
Bliss He wakes, and woe He lightens:
God is Wisdom, God is Love.

2 Chance and change are busy ever;
Man decays, and ages move;
But His mercy waneth never:
God is Wisdom, God is Love.

3 Even the hour that darkest seemeth
Will His changeless goodness prove:
From the gloom His brighness streameth:
God is Wisdom, God is Love.

4 He with earthly cares entwineth
Hope and comfort from above:
Everywhere His glory shineth;
God is Wisdom, God is Love.

Text Information
First Line: God is Love: His mercy brightens
Author: Sir John Bowring (1825, a.)
Meter: 8, 7.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: God: His Mercy and Faithfulness; Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: STUTTGART
Meter: 8, 7.
Key: G Major
Notes: Now Public Domain. Composer in index: Dretzel, 1731. Har. Dr. Gauntlett



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