Immortal Love, Forever Full

Immortal love

for­ev­er full

Forever flow­ing free

Forever shared

for­ev­er whole

A nev­er ebb­ing sea!

Our out­ward lips con­fess the name

All oth­er names above;

Love only know­eth whence it came

And com­pre­hend­eth love.

Blow

winds of God

awake and blow

The mists of earth away:

Shine out

O light di­vine

and show

How wide and far we stray.

We may not climb the heav­en­ly steeps

To bring the Lord Christ down;

In vain we search the low­est deeps

For Him no depths can drown.

But warm

sweet

ten­der

even yet

A pre­sent help is He;

And faith still has its Ol­iv­et

And love its Ga­li­lee.

The heal­ing of His seam­less dress

Is by our beds of pain;

We touch Him in life’s throng and press

And we are whole again.

Through Him the first fond pray­ers are said

Our lips of child­hood frame

The last low whis­pers of our dead

Are bur­dened with His name.

O Lord and mas­ter of us all

Whate’er our name or sign

We own Thy sway

we hear Thy call

We test our lives by Thine.

The let­ter fails

the sys­tems fall

And ev­ery sym­bol wanes;

The Spir­it ov­er brood­ing all

Eternal love re­mains.