Immortal love, for ever full
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Immortal love, for ever full, For ever flowing free, For ever shared, for ever whole, A never-ebbing sea! Our outward lips confess the name All other names above; Love only knoweth whence it came, And comprehendeth love. We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. In joy of inward peace, or sense Of sorrow over sin, He is his own best evidence; His witness is within. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he; And faith hath still its Olivet, And love its Galilee.. The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain; We touch him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again. Through him the first fond prayers are said Our lips of childhood frame; The last low whispers of our dead Are burdened with his name. Alone, O Love ineffable Thy saving name is given; To turn aside from thee is hell, To walk with thee is heaven. |
Amoris usque profluus O fons perpetue! O mare tot bibentibus inexhauribile! Humana lingua nomen id fatetur optimum; sed tibi, amor, sis ipse quid et unde, est cognitum. Nequiquarn usque celsius Christum persequimur, nec ille sub gurgitibus profundi mergitur. In pace mentis intimae et paenitentia se monstrat ille signaque dat intus abdita. Manent adhuc auxilia et suavis is calor fides et Olivetica Galilausque amor. Nec eius ista demitur stola aegrotantibus; in vulgo tantum tangimur et convalescimus. Hunc parvulorum labia precantum invocant et morientum murmura eundem nuncupant. O amor ineffabilis, arx una qui clues, fit orcus abs te deviis, beantur comites. |