Tender and kind, it leads the soul to sing;
Free from all jealous thought and boastful feeling,
May I this love divine to others bring.
Purest affection "seeks not its own things;"
Never provoked, not counting evil doing;
Let this love echo forth from my heart's strings.
A love that cheers whenever truth is king;
It covers all things, and believes it all things,
It hopes all things, and will endure all things.
Timeless and strong, prevails o'er everything;
When knowledge fails, and gifts are unavailing;
May I be found in its eternal spring.