Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: O love divine how sweet thou art
Topic: Love
Writer: Charles Wesley
Composer: Thomas Hastings
Meter: CPM
Tune: Bremen
Hymn Number: 195
Page Number: 067, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO LOVE divine, how sweet thou art!
When shall I find my wandering heart
All taken up in thee?
O may I daily live to prove
The sweetness of redeeming love,
The love of Christ to me!
God only knows the love of God;
O may it now be shed abroad
To cheer my fainting heart!
I want to feel that love divine;
This heavenly portion, Lord, be mine-
Be mine this better part.
O that I could forever sit
With Mary at the Mater'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.
O that I might with happy John,
Recline my weary head upon
The blest Redeemer's breast!
From care, and fear, and sorrow free,
Give me, O Lord, to find in thee
My everlasting rest.