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Text: | O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go |
Author: | George Matheson |
Tune: | ST. MARGARET |
Composer: | Albert Lister Peace |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
that in thine ocean depths its flow
may richer, fuller be.
2 O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
my heart restores its borrowed ray,
that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
may brighter, fairer be.
3 O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
and feel the promise is not vain
that morn shall tearless be.
4 O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
and from the ground there blossoms red
life that shall endless be.
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First Line: | O Love that wilt not let me go |
Title: | O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go |
Author: | George Matheson (1881, alt.) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.6. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Commitment; Eternal Life; Joy(3 more...) |
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Name: | ST. MARGARET |
Composer: | Albert Lister Peace (1884, alt.) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.6. |
Key: | G Major |
This intense hymn of commitment to God (addressed as Love, Light, and Joy) closes with an invocation of the ultimate testimony to those attributes (the Cross). The composer, a Scotsman, named this specially composed tune for the 11th-century patroness of Scotland.
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