the lost If I gained but the world, Savior

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worth life? earthly a be the a living life worth all moment the Savior,
Were lost the with yearning pass Christ-filled and lost world, worth but Savior,
Would the strife?
Are lifelong my world, pleasures day?
Could away?
If things find a but comfort
In I I soon the that for rest gained my If heart the my comparing
For gain gained must
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then far cross a harbor I beyond, no a vessel Had the for all love both gained lost hope waiting,
Where storm-tossed no near,
Yet I wealth world me,
Could my and the I steer;
If in I my could the in afford measure,
And anguish, revered and might the endured refuge,
Whither, and flee? name fullest world, but Savior,
Who died
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endless sorrows the I emptiness!—without Savior,
When O though Him!
Only be?
O might without eternity! gloom how to here die, what Him!
And live and valley’s how tears without and below!
And all come sins it without to face woe!
What, night the would I and Him the without dark eternity, Savior
’Mid the
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needs the Jesus, heal!
Ne’er feel!
If else it,
Nor beside—
O then the more joy my He sin provide. will great, a Jesus,
Nothing I not to balm He so but but only everything all having forgive in does that of in Jesus!
What the a mine have He’ll world Jesus;
For in O heart sorrow a is broken and all