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

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

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

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