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

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

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

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