Samuel Sebastian Wesley - Cornwall - ноты, текст песни (слова)

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O love divine, how sweet thou art! 
When shall I find my willing heart 
All taken up by thee? 
I thirst, I faint, I die to prove 
The greatness of redeeming love, 
The love of Christ to me. 

 2. 
 
 
 
Stronger His love than death or hell; 
Its reaches are unsearchable; 
The first born sons of light 
Desire in vain its depths to see; 
They cannot reach the mystery 
The length, and breadth, and height. 

 3. 
 
 
 
God only knows the love of God; 
O that it now were shed abroad 
In this poor stony heart! 
For love I sigh, for love I pine; 
This only portion, Lord, be mine, 
Be mine this better part. 
4. 
 
 
 
O that I could forever sit 
With Mary at the Master's feet; 
Be this my happy choice; 
My only care, delight, and bliss, 
My joy, my heaven on earth, be this 
To hear the Bridegroom's voice. 

 5. 
 
 
 
O that, with humbled Peter, I 
Could weep, believe, and thrice reply, 
My faithfulness to prove. 
Thou know'st, (for all to Thee is known, 
Thou know'st, O Lord, and Thou alone, 
Thou know'st that Thee I love. 

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O that I could, with favored John, 
Recline my weary head upon 
The dear Redeemer's breast! 
From care, and sin, and sorrow free, 
Give me, O Lord, to find in Thee 
My everlasting rest. 

 7. 
 
 
 
Thy only love do I require, 
Nothing on earth beneath desire, 
Nothing in heaven above; 
Let earth, and heaven, and all things go, 
Give me Thy only love to know, 
Give me only Thy love. 

 Lyrics: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sac­red Po­ems, 1749, Vol­ume I.