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

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

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

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