590. O Perfect Love

1 O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,
Humbly we seek the promise you have won,
That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
And you forevermore will make them one.

2 O perfect Life, be now their full assurance
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,
Of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
With childlike trust that fears not 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.

Text Information
First Line: O perfect Love, all human thought transcending
Title: O Perfect Love
Author: Dorothy B. Gurney, 1858-1932 (alt.)
Meter: 11 10 11 10
Language: English
Publication Date: 2015
Topic: Marriage
Tune Information
Name: O PERFECT LOVE
Composer: Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896
Meter: 11 10 11 10
Key: D Major



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