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Text:Immortal Love, Forever Full
Author:John Greeleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Tune:SERENITY
Arr. from:William V. Wallace (1814-1865)

455. Immortal Love, Forever Full

1 Immortal Love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never ebbing sea!

2 We nay not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For him no depths can drown.

3 But warm, so tender, even yet
A present help is He;
And faith has still its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.

4 The healing of His seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch Him in life’s throng and press,
And we are whole again.

5 Through Him the first fond prayers are said,
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with His name.

6 O Lord and Master of us all:
Whate’er our names or sign,
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test our lives by Thine!

Text Information
First Line: Immortal love, forever full, Forever flowing free
Title: Immortal Love, Forever Full
Author: John Greeleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Meter: C.M.
Publication Date: 1985
Topic: Christian Life: Our Love for God
Tune Information
Name: SERENITY
Arr. from: William V. Wallace (1814-1865)
Meter: C.M.
Incipit: 33343 32225 23435
Key: D Major



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