The Cyber Hymnal ‎#5163

5163. O Love, Who Formedst Me to Wear

1. O Love, who formedst me to wear
The image of Thy Godhead here;
Who soughtest me with tender care
Thro’ all my wanderings wild and drear;
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine to be.

2. O Love, who ere life’s earliest dawn,
On me Thy choice hast gently laid;
O Love, who here as man wast born,
And wholly like to us wast made;
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine to be.

3. O Love, who once in time wast slain,
Pierced through and through with bitter woe;
O Love, who wrestling thus didst gain
That we eternal joy might know;
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine to be.

4. O Love, of whom is truth and light,
The Word and Spirit, life and power,
Whose heart was bared to them that smite,
To shield us in our trial hour:
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine to be.

5. O Love, who thus hast bound me fast
Beneath that easy yoke of Thine;
Love, who hast conquered me at last,
Enrapturing this heart of mine—
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine to be.

6. O Love, who lovest me for aye,
Who for my soul dost ever plead;
O Love, who didst that ransom pay
Whose power sufficeth in my stead;
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine to be.

7. O Love, who once shalt bid me rise
From out this dying life of ours;
O Love, who once o’er yonder skies
Shalt set me in the fadeless bowers;
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine to be.

Text Information

• First Line: O Love, who formedst me to wear
• Title: O Love, Who Formedst Me to Wear
• German Title: Liebe die du mich zum Bilde
• Author: Johann Scheffler (1657)
• Translator (from German): Catherine Winkworth
• Language: English
• Source: Heilige Seelenlust, 1657; Translation in Lyra Germanica, 1858
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: BREMEN (Neumark)
• Composer: Georg Neumark (1641)
• Incipit: 51232 12177 76511
• Key: a minor
• Copyright: Public Domain