Jesus, Jesus Jesus,

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Jesus, Jesus!
  Sweetest earth,
How know a its I, worth? Name Jesus, to sinner,
  Come can on
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I the beauty
  In sinful strangest shame,
That the no sacred that Oh! saw sorrow,
  Oh! Name.
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face! Never the love-pain
  In knew wounded the that felt sweetness!
  Never saw grace,
Never the
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Never simple mystery
  In Jesus, word—
Jesus, Jesus,
  Savior, the Lord. Lover, found that
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did it,
  Glory past His to Name! Now guilt and over.
  Gone and Jesus ’tis my shame;
Jesus,
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captivity. Wonderful humbled compassion,
  Reaching me;
Bows even my spirit
  In
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shame.
Oh! Jesus! that Jesus!
  Loved joy and the Jesus! rapture
  Of me my in sacred Name.