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Text:Eternal Love, We Have No Good
Author:Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
Tune:ETERNAL LOVE (Proctor)
Composer:Kenneth S. Proctor (1895-c.1985) )

496. Eternal Love, We Have No Good

1 Eternal Love, we have no good to bring Thee,
No single good of all our hands have wrought,
No worthy music have we found to sing Thee,
No jewelled word, no quick up soaring thought.

2 And yet we come; and when our faith would falter
Show us, O Love, the quiet place of prayer,
The golden censer and the golden altar,
And the great angel waiting for us there.

Text Information
First Line: Eternal Love, we have no good to bring Thee
Title: Eternal Love, We Have No Good
Author: Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
Meter: 11.10.11.10.
Publication Date: 1985
Scripture:
Topic: Christan Life: Meditation and Prayer
Source: From Wings by Amy Carmichael.
Copyright: Copyright by Dohnavur Fellowship.
Notes: Now Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ETERNAL LOVE (Proctor)
Composer: Kenneth S. Proctor (1895-c.1985) ) (1960)
Meter: 11.10.11.10.
Incipit: 37155 56465 53332
Key: F Major or modal



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