
1 What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone
around Your steps below!
What patient love was seen in all
Your life and death of woe!
2 For ever on Your burdened heart
a weight of sorrow hung,
yet no ungentle, murmuring word
escaped Your silent tongue.
3 Your foes might hate, despise, revile,
Your friends unfaithful prove;
unwearied in forgiveness still,
Your heart could only love.
4 O give us hearts to love like You,
like You, O Lord, to grieve
far more for others’ sins than all
the wrongs that we receive.
5 One with Yourself, may every eye
in all of humankind
behold that grace and gentleness
which, Lord, in You we find.
Source: The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook #528
First Line: | What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone |
Title: | What Grace, O Lord! |
Author: | Edward Denny (1839) |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone. Sir E. Denny. [The love of Jesus.] Appeared in his Selection of Hymns, 1839, No. 32. in 5 stanzas of 4 lines; and again in his Hymns and Poems, 1848, p. 71, and later editions. It has passed into most of the hymn-books of the Plymouth Brethren, and also into several other collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)