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

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

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

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