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Text: | O Love divine, how sweet Thou art! |
Author: | C. Wesley |
Tune: | [O Love divine, how sweet Thou art!] |
Composer: | H. W. Hardy |
1 O Love divine, how sweet Thou art!
When shall I find my willing heart
All taken up by Thee!
I thirst, I faint, I die to prove
The greatness of redeeming love,
The love of Christ to me.
2 Stronger His love than death or hell;
Its reaches are unsearchable;
The first-born sons of light
Desire in vain its depths to see,
They cannot reach the mystery,
The length, and breadth, and height.
3 God only knows the love of God:
O that it now were shed abroad
In this poor stony heart!
For love I sigh, for love I pine;
This only portion, Lord, be mine,
Be mine this better part.
4 O that I could for ever sit
With Mary at the Master’s feet!
Be this my happy choice:
My only care, delight, and bliss,
My joy, my heaven on earth, be this,
To hear the Bridegroom’s voice!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O Love divine, how sweet Thou art! |
Author: | C. Wesley (1749) |
Meter: | 8, 8, 6, 8, 8, 6. |
Publication Date: | 1913 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity; God: Loving |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [O Love divine, how sweet Thou art!] |
Composer: | H. W. Hardy |
Meter: | 8, 8, 6, 8, 8, 6. |
Key: | E♭ Major |