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

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

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

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