The Cyber Hymnal ‎#5864

5864. How Can I But Love Him?

1 So tender, so precious,
My Savior to me;
So true and so gracious,
I’ve found Him to be;

Refrain:
How can I but love Him?
But love Him, but love Him?
There’s no friend above Him,
Poor sinner, for thee.

2 So patient, so kindly
Tow’rd all of my ways;
I blunder so blindly,
He love still repays; [Refrain]

3 Of all friends the fairest
And truest is He;
His love is the rarest,
That ever can be. [Refrain]

4 His beauty, tho’ bleeding
And circled with thorns,
Is then most exceeding,
For grief Him adorns. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: So tender, so precious
• Title: How Can I But Love Him?
• Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1878)
• Refrain First Line: How can I but love Him?
• Language: English
• Source: Francis Murphy's Gospel Temperance Hymnal by Jeremiah E. Rankin and Edmund S. Lorenz (New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1878)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: [So tender, so precious]
• Composer: Edmund Simon Lorenz
• Key: B♭ Major
• Copyright: Public Domain