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453. O Perfect Love, All Human Thought Transcending

1 O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,
Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,
That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one.

2 O perfect Life, be Thou their full assurance
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,
Of patient hope, and quiet, brave endurance,
With childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death.

3 Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
And to life's day the glorious unknown morrow
That dawns upon eternal love and life.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: O perfect love, all human thought transcending
Title: O Perfect Love, All Human Thought Transcending
Author: Dorothy Frances Gurney (1883)
Meter: 11. 10. 11. 10.
Publication Date: 1955
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Marriage; Church, The: Marriage
Copyright: Words copyright. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.
Tune Information
Name: PERFECT LOVE
Composer: Joseph Barnby (1889)
Meter: 11. 10. 11. 10.
Key: E♭ Major



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