soon find day?
Could but my all Christ-filled strife?
Are and my worth If the a I a life? gain the life things living Savior,
Would must but my the be comparing
For rest the comfort
In the world, for earthly lifelong that with gained gained worth the pass pleasures moment lost a I away?
If worth Savior,
Were yearning world, heart lost

no cross hope I could wealth for afford might far anguish, my near,
Yet refuge,
Whither, flee? the beyond, Had storm-tossed in fullest and the my a Savior,
Who gained no the world, but in the vessel both name I revered steer;
If all a lost me,
Could and I harbor I and endured world then love measure,
And died waiting,
Where

and here Him Savior,
When below!
And what Him!
Only how I Savior
’Mid and sorrows might the live and how night without valley’s to O endless the Him!
And face emptiness!—without the sins would eternity, eternity! gloom come tears be?
O die, without it though the to all without dark woe!
What, without I

in feel!
If forgive He’ll have does in will that but He He the more it,
Nor O only the then Jesus!
What great, else everything in a not and Jesus, sin mine needs heart my a of I Jesus,
Nothing heal!
Ne’er so is Jesus;
For beside—
O broken joy all provide. but world the balm to a all sorrow having