O Hope of Every Contrite Heart

lyricist: Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th Century
Composer: John Dykes, 1866

O hope of ev­ery con­trite heart

O joy of all the meek

To those who fall

how kind Thou art!

How good to those who seek!

But what to those who find?

Ah this—nor tongue nor pen can show;

The love of Je­sus

what it is

None but His loved ones show.

Jesus

our on­ly joy be Thou

As Thou our prize will be;

Jesus

be Thou our glo­ry now

And through eter­ni­ty.

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