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LOVE UNKNOWN




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? :|


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. :|


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. :|


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. :|


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. :|


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. :|


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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LYRICS
Meter: 6 6 6 6 8 8 extended
Writer(s):
    Trans/Adapted:
      Dates: 1664
      Bible Refs: Mt 21:9; Mt 27:22; Mk 11:9; Mk 15:13; Lk 19:38; Lk 23:21; Jn 12:13; Jn 19:6; Rm 5:8; Rm 5:8; Eph 3:19;
      MUSIC
      Name: LOVE UNKNOWN
      Meter: 6 6 6 6 8 8
      Writer(s):
        Dates: 1918
        SCORE PREVIEW
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        ALTERNATIVE TUNES
        Name meter
        6 6 6 6 8 8
        6 6 6 6 8 8
        6 6 6 6 8 8 8

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