Text: | My Song Is Love Unknown |
Author: | Samuel Crossman, 1624-1683 |
Tune: | LOVE UNKNOWN |
Composer: | John Ireland, 1879-1962 |
1 My song is love unknown,
my Savior’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown
that they might lovely be.
Oh, who am I that for my sake
my Lord should take frail flesh and die?
2 He came from his blest throne
salvation to bestow;
the world that was his own
would not its Savior know.
But, oh, my friend,
my friend indeed,
who at my need his life did spend!
3 Sometimes we strew his way
and his sweet praises sing;
resounding all the day
hosannas to their king.
Then, “Crucify!” is all their breath,
and for his death they thirst and cry.
4 We cry out, we will have
our dear Lord made away,
a murderer to save,
the prince of life to slay.
Yet cheerful he to suff'ring goes
that he his foes from thence might free.
5 If life no house, no home
my Lord on earth might have;
in death no friendly tomb
but what a stranger gave.
What may i say? Heav'n was his home
but mine the tomb wherein he lay.
6 Here might I stay and sing --
no story so divine!
Never was love, dear King,
never was grief like thine.
This is my friend, in whose sweet praise
I all my days would gladly spend!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My song is love unknown |
Title: | My Song Is Love Unknown |
Author: | Samuel Crossman, 1624-1683 (alt.) |
Meter: | 6 6 6 6 4 4 8 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2006 |
Topic: | Lent; Atonement; Good Friday(1 more...) |
Notes: | Alternate tune: RHOSYMEDRE |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LOVE UNKNOWN |
Composer: | John Ireland, 1879-1962 |
Meter: | 6 6 6 6 4 4 8 |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | © 1924 John Ireland, admin. The John Ireland Trust |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. |