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

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

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

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