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

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

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

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