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

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

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

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