The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/Immortal Love, Forever Full

by John Greenleaf Whittier(Serenity by William Vincent Wallace)

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Immortal Love, Forever Full

(SERENITY. C.M.)

John G. Whittier, 1866

Arranged from William V. Wallace, 1814-1865

1. Immortal Love, forever full,
   Forever flowing free,
   Forever shared,for ever whole,
   A never-ebbing sea !
   
2. We may not climb the heavenly steeps
   To bring the Lord Christ down;
   In vain we search the low est deeps,
   For him no depths can drown.
   
3. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
   A present help is he ;
   And faith has still its Olivet,
   And love its Galilee.
   
4. The healing of his seamless dress
   Is by our beds of pain ;
   We touch him in life's throng and press,
   And we are whole again.
   
5. O Lord, and Master of us all,
   Whate'er our name or sign,
   We own thy sway, we hear thy call,
   We test our lives by thine. Amen.