Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#325

325. Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean

1. Here is love, vast as the ocean,
Loving-kindness as the flood;
When the Prince of Life, my ransom,
Shed for me his precious blood.
Who his love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing his praise?
He shall never be forgotten,
Through Heav’n’s everlasting days

2. On the mount of crucifixion,
Fountains opened deep and wide,
Through the flood-gates of God’s mercy,
Flowed the vast and gracious tide;
Grace and love, like mighty rivers
Poured incessant from above,
And God’s peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love.

3. Let me all your love accepting,
Love you, ever all my days;
Let me seek your kingdom only
And my life be to your praise;
You alone will be my glory,
Nothing in the world I see;
You have cleansed and sanctified me,
You have loved and set me free.

4. In your truth you will direct me
By your Spirit, thru' your Word;
And your grace my need is meeting,
As I trust in you, my Lord.
All your fulness you are pouring
From your endless wells above,
Without measure, full and boundless
As I yield myself in love.

Text Information

• First Line: Here is love, vast as the ocean
• Title: Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean
• Welsh Title: Dyma gariad fel y moroedd
• Author: William Rees (ca. 1847)
• Translator: William Edwards (1899)
• Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  Mark 10:45
• Topic: Ordinary Time: Week 24
• Source: sts. 3–4 Redemption Hymnal, 1951, alt.
• Notes: Sts. 1–2, Welsh text “Dyma gariad fel y moroedd” by William Rees from Y per ganiedydd (ca. 1847), tr. by William Edwards for The Baptist Book of Praise (1899); sts. 3–4 from the Redemption Hymnal (1951).

Tune Information

• Name: DIM OND IESU
• Composer: Robert Lowry (1877)
• Meter: 8.7.8.7 D
• Incipit: 12312 321
• Key: F Major or modal
• Notes: Tune DIM OND IESU (JESUS ONLY) by Robert Lowry, from Gospel Music (1877).