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

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

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

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