| O Love, who formedst me to wearThe image of Thy Godhead here;
 Who soughtest me with tender care
 Thro’ all my wanderings wild and drear;
 O Love, I give myself to Thee,
 Thine ever, only Thine to be.
 O Love, who ere life’s earliest dawn,On me Thy choice hast gently laid;
 O Love, who here as Man wast born,
 And wholly like to us wast made;
 O Love, I give myself to Thee,
 Thine ever, only Thine to be.
 O Love, who once in time wast slain,Pierced through and through with bitter woe;
 O Love, who wrestling thus didst gain
 That we eternal joy might know;
 O Love, I give myself to Thee,
 Thine ever, only Thine to be.
 O Love, of whom is truth and light,The Word and Spirit, life and power,
 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.
 O Love, who thus hast bound me fastBeneath that easy yoke of Thine;
 Love, who hast conquered me at last,
 Enrapturing this heart of mine—
 O Love, I give myself to Thee,
 Thine ever, only Thine to be.
 O Love, who lovest me for aye,Who for my soul dost ever plead;
 O Love, who didst that ransom pay
 Whose power sufficeth in my stead;
 O Love, I give myself to Thee,
 Thine ever, only Thine to be.
 O Love, who once shalt bid me riseFrom out this dying life of ours;
 O Love, who once o’er yonder skies
 Shalt set me in the fadeless bowers;
 O Love, I give myself to Thee,
 Thine ever, only Thine to be.
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