Christ My Song - 812

Tale of tenderness unfathomed - The pearl
(Frances Bevan/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The pearl.

"When he had found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it." (Matthew 13,46)

1. Tale of tenderness unfathomed
  told by God to me –
tale of love, mysterious, awful –
  thus God's love must be. (PDF - Midi)

2. God the Seeker – one fair image
  ever in his thought,
pure, and radiant, and faultless,
  yet he found it not.

3. Not amongst his holy Angels,
  was there one so bright;
not amongst his stars of glory
  dwelt his heart's delight.

4. Yet there was a depth unfathomed
  in a lonely place ;
one great deep of endless sorrow,
  darkness on its face.

5. Restless sea of black pollution
  moaning evermore,
weary waves for ever breaking
  on a barren shore.

6. There below in midnight darkness,
  under those wild waves,
lies the treasure God is seeking,
  jewel that he craves.

7. Down beneath those sunless waters
  he from Heaven has passed,
he has found his heart's desire,
  found his pearl at last.

8. All he had his heart has given
  for that gem unpriced –
such art thou, O ransomed sinner,
  yea, for such is Christ.

C. P. C.

Frances Bevan, Hymns of Ter Steegen and others 2, 1899, 52-53.

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