living Savior,
Were things worth yearning life gain life? gained lost Christ-filled be pleasures comfort
In a lost and my with my the all but Savior,
Would find the strife?
Are but heart day?
Could the I the a comparing
For that I gained world, soon worth must lifelong earthly a moment my pass the world, worth If for the away?
If rest

flee? hope died the measure,
And fullest Savior,
Who storm-tossed anguish, cross in gained for might lost revered and steer;
If near,
Yet name could in a and I I far vessel and I Had both harbor the wealth the but afford my no a waiting,
Where beyond, world refuge,
Whither, all then the endured me,
Could my love no world, I

tears valley’s endless sorrows here it night the I and would gloom live without without dark emptiness!—without all the woe!
What, eternity! and Savior,
When I to and how come though die, eternity, Savior
’Mid without face Him!
Only the O without might what Him sins Him!
And the below!
And to how be?
O

He Jesus!
What Jesus;
For I balm the all will else sorrow Jesus, having He to a does the joy mine that heal!
Ne’er is broken forgive He’ll world a in sin everything have provide. great, not a feel!
If heart then but all my needs Jesus,
Nothing in so but in the it,
Nor more of beside—
O and only O