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Text:O love of God, how strong and true
Author:H. Bonar
Tune:SWEDEN
Composer:H. Hiles

322. O love of God, how strong and true

1 O love of God, how strong and true,
Eternal and yet ever new,
Uncomprehended and unbought,
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.

2 O wide-embracing, wondrous love!
We read thee in the sky above;
We read thee in the earth below,
In seas that swell, and streams that flow.

3 O heavenly love, how precious still,
In days of weariness and ill,
In nights of pain and helplessness,
To heal, to comfort, and to bless.

4 O love of God, our shield and stay
Through all the perils of our way,
Eternal love, in thee we rest,
For ever safe, for ever blest.

Text Information
First Line: O love of God, how strong and true
Author: H. Bonar
Language: English
Publication Date: 1920
Topic: General
Tune Information
Name: SWEDEN
Composer: H. Hiles
Meter: L.M.
Key: F Major or modal



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