Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: What grace O Lord and beauty shone
Topic: The New Life/Sympathies and Activities
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 961
Page Number: 571, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhat grace, O Lord, and beauty shone
Around thy steps below;
What patient love was seen in all
Thy life and death of wo!
For, ever on thy burdened heart
A weight of sorrow hung;
Yet no ungentle, murmuring word
Escaped thy silent tongue.
Thy foes might hate, despise, revile,
Thy friends unfaithful prove;
Unwearied in forgiveness still,
Thy heart could only love.
O give us hearts to love like thee!
Like thee, O Lord, to grieve
Far more for others' sins than all
The wrongs that we receive.
One with thyself, may every eye,
In us, thy brethren, see
The gentleness and grace that spring
From union, Lord! with thee.