Text: | O Perfect Love |
Author: | Dorothy F. Gurney, 1858-1932 |
Tune: | O PERFECT LOVE |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 |
1 O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,
Lowly we kneel in prayer before your throne,
That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
Whom you forevermore unite in one.
2 O perfect Life, be now their full assurance
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,
Of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
With childlike trust that fears nor pain or death.
3 Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
And to life’s day the glorious unknown morrow
That dawns upon eternal love and life.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O perfect Love, all human thought transcending |
Title: | O Perfect Love |
Author: | Dorothy F. Gurney, 1858-1932 |
Meter: | 11 10 11 10 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1978 |
Topic: | Marriage |
Copyright: | By permission of Oxford University Press |
Notes: | Now Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | O PERFECT LOVE |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896 (adapt.) |
Meter: | 11 10 11 10 |
Key: | D Major |