O God, of Good the Unfathomed Sea

O God

of good the un­fa­thomed sea!

Who would not give his heart to Thee?

Who would not love Thee with his might?

O Je­sus

lov­er of man­kind

Who would not his whole soul and mind

With all his strength

to Thee unite?

Thou shin’st with ev­er­last­ing rays;

Before the in­suf­fer­able blaze

Angels with both wings veil their eyes;

Yet free as air Thy boun­ty streams

On all Thy works; Thy mer­cy’s beams

Diffusive as Thy sun’s arise.

Astonished at Thy frown­ing brow

Earth

hell

and Heav­en’s strong pil­lars bow;

Terrible ma­jes­ty is Thine!

Who then can that vast love ex­press

Which bows Thee down to me

who less

Than no­thing am

till Thou art mine?

High throned upon Heav­en’s eter­nal hill

In num­ber

weight

and mea­sure still

Thou sweet­ly or­der­est all that is:

And yet Thou deign’st to come to me

And guide my steps

that I

with Thee

Enthroned

may reign in end­less bliss.

Fountain of good

all bless­ing flows

From Thee; no want Thy full­ness knows;

What but Thy­self canst Thou de­sire?

Yet

self-suf­fi­cient as Thou art

Thou dost de­sire my worth­less heart;

This

on­ly this

dost Thou re­quire.

Primeval beau­ty! in Thy sight

The first-born

fair­est sons of light

See all their bright­est glo­ries fade:

What then to me Thine eyes could turn

In sin con­ceived

of wo­man born

A worm

a leaf

a blast

a shade?

Hell’s ar­mies trem­ble at Thy nod

And trem­bling own the al­migh­ty God

Sovereign of earth

hell

air

and sky:

But who is this that comes from far

Whose gar­ments rolled in blood ap­pear?

’Tis God made man

for man to die!

O God

of good the un­fa­thomed sea!

Who would not give his heart to Thee?

Who would not love Thee with his might?

O Je­sus

lov­er of man­kind

Who would not his whole soul and mind

With all his strength

to Thee unite?