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

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

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

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