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

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

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

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