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(Angelus, 1657)
O LOVE, who formedst me to wear | |
| The image of Thy Godhead here; | |
| Who soughtest me with tender care | |
| Through all my wanderings wild and drear; | |
| O Love, I give myself to Thee, | 5 |
| Thine ever, only Thine to be. | |
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| O Love, who ere life’s earliest dawn | |
| Thy choice on me hast gently laid; | |
| O Love, who here as man wast born, | |
| And wholly like to us wast made; | 10 |
| O Love, I give myself to Thee, | |
| Thine ever, only Thine to be. | |
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| O Love, who once in Time wast slain, | |
| Pierced through and through with bitter woe; | |
| O Love, who wrestling thus didst gain | 15 |
| That we eternal joy might know; | |
| O Love, I give myself to Thee, | |
| Thine ever, only Thine to be. | |
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| O Love, of whom is truth and light, | |
| The Word and Spirit, life and power, | 20 |
| Whose heart was bared to them that smite, | |
| To shield us in our trial hour; | |
| O Love, I give myself to Thee, | |
| Thine ever, only Thine to be. | |
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| O Love, who thus hast bound me fast, | 25 |
| Beneath that gentle yoke of Thine; | |
| Love, who hast conquered me at last, | |
| And rapt away this heart of mine; | |
| O Love, I give myself to Thee, | |
| Thine ever, only Thine to be. | 30 |
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| O Love, who lovest me for aye, | |
| Who for my soul dost ever plead; | |
| O Love, who didst my ransom pay, | |
| Whose power sufficeth in my stead, | |
| O Love, I give myself to Thee, | 35 |
| Thine ever, only Thine to be. | |
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| O Love, who once shalt bid me rise | |
| From out this dying life of ours; | |
| O Love, who once o’er yonder skies | |
| Shalt set me in the fadeless bowers; | 40 |
| O Love, I give myself to Thee, | |
| Thine ever, only Thine to be. | |
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