Text: | My Song Is Love Unknown |
Author: | Samuel Crossman |
Tune: | LOVE UNKNOWN |
Composer: | John Ireland |
1 My song is love unknown,
my Savior's love for 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 heaven’s throne
salvation to bestow,
but people scorned and none
the longed-for Christ would know.
But O my friend,
my friend indeed,
who at my need
his life did spend.
3 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 (1664, alt.) |
Meter: | 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1995 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Son and Redeemer; Christ; Christ--Love of(4 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LOVE UNKNOWN |
Composer: | John Ireland (1918) |
Meter: | 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4. |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | By permission of the John Ireland Trust. |