Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: What grace O Lord and beauty shone
Topic: Christ/Character
Writer: Edward Denny
Composer: R Simpson
Meter: CM
Tune: Balerma
Hymn Number: 630
Page Number: 233, 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 woe!
For, ever on Thy burden'd heart,
A weight of sorrow hung;
Yet no ungentle, murm'ring word
Escap'd 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.