Christ My Song - 2411
O love divine, how sweet thou art
(Charles Wesley/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
O love divine, how sweet thou art.
1. O love divine, how sweet thou art!
When shall I find my willing heart
all taken up by thee?
I thirst and faint and die to prove
the greatness of redeeming love,
the love of Christ to me! PDF - Midi
2. Stronger his love than death or hell;
its riches are unsearchable:
the first-born sons of light
desire in vain its depth to see;
they cannot reach the mystery,
the length and breadth and height.
3. God only knows the love of God:
O that it now were shed abroad
in this poor stony heart!
For love I sigh, for love I pine:
this only portion, Lord, be mine,
be mine this better part!
4. O that I could for ever sit
with Mary at the Master's feet!
Be this my happy choice:
my only care, delight, and bliss,
my joy, my heaven on earth, be this,
to hear the Bridegroom's voice!
5. O that, with humbled Peter, I
could weep, believe, and thrice reply,
my faithfulness to prove:
Thou know'st (for all to thee is known),
thou know'st, O Lord! and thou alone,
thou know'st that thee I love.
6. O that I could, with favoured John,
recline my weary head upon
the dear Redeemer's breast!
From care and sin and sorrow free,
give me, O Lord! to find in thee
my everlasting rest.
7. Thy only love do I require,
nothing in earth beneath desire,
nothing in heaven above;
let earth and heaven and all things go;
give me thy only love to know,
give me thy only love.
Charles Wesley, in: Philip Schaff: Christ in Song, 1870, 490-491.