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

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

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

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