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

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

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

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