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

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

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

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