O Perfect Love!

O perfect love! It suffers long

forbearing;

Tender and kind

it leads the soul to sing;

Free from all jealous thought and boastful feeling

May I this love divine to others bring.

O

selfless love! ’Tis never unbecoming;

Purest affection “seeks not its own things;”

Never provoked

not counting evil doing;

Let this love echo forth from my heart’s strings.

O noble love! In righteousness rejoicing

A love that cheers whenever truth is king;

It covers all things

and believes it all things

It hopes all things

and will endure all things.

O lasting love! It fades not

ne’er abating;

Timeless and strong

prevails o’er everything;

When knowledge fails

and gifts are unavailing;

May I be found in its eternal spring.