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My song is love unknown;
My Saviour’s love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they may lovely be.
O who am I,
That for my sake,
|: My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
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He came from His blest throne,
Salvation to bestow:
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know.
But O my friend!
My Friend indeed,
|: Who at my need
His life did spend.
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Sometimes they strew His way,
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day,
Hosannas to their King.
Then: Crucify!
Is all their breath,
|: And for His death
They thirst and cry.
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Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
He gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries:
Yet they at these
|: Themselves displease,
And ‘gainst him rise.
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They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made a way;
A murderer they save;
The Prince of life they slay.
Yet cheerful He
To suffering goes,
|: That He His foes
From thence might free.
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In life, no house, no home
My Lord on earth might have;
In death, no friendly tomb
But what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav’n was His home;
|: But mine the tomb
Wherein He lay.
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Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine;
Never was love, dear King,
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my Friend,
In whose sweet praise
|: I all my days
Could gladly spend.
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Year
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Song #
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| 1965 | # 155 | | 1977 | # 257 | | 1962 | # 143 | | 1994 | # 503 | | 1988 | # 215 | | 1960 | # 381 | | 2000 | # 231 | | 1998 | # 184 | | 2000 | # 112 | | 2000 | # 478 | | 1996 | # 303 | | 1983 | # 63 | | 1950 | # 102 | | 1983 | # 173 | | 1988 | # 136 | | 1964 | # 169 | | 2000 | # 463 | | 1996 | # 346 | | | # 160 | | 1954 | # 144 | | 1990 | # 76 | | 1999 | # 384 | | 1991 | # 400 | | 1925 | # 80 | | 1931 | # 127 | | 1938 | # 596 | | 1971 | # 442 | | 1982 | # 458 | | 1986 | # 86 | | 1999 | # 341 |
MUSIC
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Name:
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LOVE UNKNOWN
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Meter:
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6 6 6 6 8 8
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1918
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 400 | D | | # 160 | Eb | | # 143 | Eb | | # 169 | Eb | | # 173 | Eb | | # 373 | Eb | | # 144 | Eb |
ALTERNATIVE TUNES
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Name
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meter
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| 6 6 6 6 8 8 | | 6 6 6 6 8 8 | | 6 6 6 6 8 8 8 |
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Hymn Writer
