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Text:God Is Love
Author:John Bowring
Tune:WELLESLEY
Composer:Lizzie Shove Tourjee

182. God Is Love

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 E'en the hour that darkest seemeth
Will His changeless goodness prove;
From the gloom His brightness streameth:
God is wisdom, God is love.

4 He with earthly care entwineth
Hope and comfort from above;
Ev'rywhere His glory shineth:
God is wisdom, God is love.

Text Information
First Line: God is love: His mercy brightens
Title: God Is Love
Author: John Bowring (1825)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Language: English
Publication Date: 1997
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: God: Love
Tune Information
Name: WELLESLEY
Composer: Lizzie Shove Tourjee (1878)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Key: C Major



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