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

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

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

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