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| − | '''My Song is love unknown''' | + | '''My Song is love unknown''' is a beautiful hymn commemorating of [[Good Friday]] with music composed by John Ireland (1879 - 1962)<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ireland_%28composer%29 Wikipedia - John Ireland</ref> and words composed by Samuel Crossman (c.1624 - 1684)<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Crossman Wikipedia - Samuel Crossman</ref>. |
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My song is love unknown, | My song is love unknown, | ||
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And for His death they thirst and cry. | And for His death they thirst and cry. | ||
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What makes this rage and spite? | What makes this rage and spite? | ||
He made the lame to run, | He made the lame to run, | ||
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I all my days could gladly spend. | I all my days could gladly spend. | ||
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An additional penultimate verse is generally omitted: | An additional penultimate verse is generally omitted: | ||
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| − | + | In life, no house, no home | |
| − | + | My Lord on earth might have; | |
| − | + | In death no friendly tomb | |
| − | + | But what a stranger gave. | |
| − | + | What may I say? Heav’n was His home; | |
| − | == | + | But mine the tomb wherein He lay. |
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*[http://www.hymnswithoutwords.com/downloads.php?cat_id=12 Free MP3 performance of "My song is love unknown" for use in public or private worship from hymnswithoutwords.com] | *[http://www.hymnswithoutwords.com/downloads.php?cat_id=12 Free MP3 performance of "My song is love unknown" for use in public or private worship from hymnswithoutwords.com] | ||
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Revision as of 17:34, 30 March 2008
My Song is love unknown is a beautiful hymn commemorating of Good Friday with music composed by John Ireland (1879 - 1962)[1] and words composed by Samuel Crossman (c.1624 - 1684)[2].
Words
My song is love unknown, My Savior’s love to me; Love to the loveless shown, That they might lovely be. O who am I, that for my sake My Lord should take frail flesh and die? He came from His blest throne Salvation to bestow; But men made strange, and none The longed-for Christ would know: But O! my Friend, my Friend indeed, Who at my need His life did spend. Sometimes they strew His way, And His sweet praises sing; Resounding all the day Hosannas to their King: Then “Crucify!” is all their breath, And for His death they thirst and cry. Why, what hath my Lord done? What makes this rage and spite? He made the lame to run, He gave the blind their sight, Sweet injuries! Yet they at these Themselves displease, and ’gainst Him rise. They rise and needs will have My dear Lord made away; A murderer they save, The Prince of life they slay, Yet cheerful He to suffering goes, That He His foes from thence might free. Here might I stay and sing, No story so divine; Never was love, dear King! Never was grief like Thine. This is my Friend, in Whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend.
An additional penultimate verse is generally omitted:
In life, no house, no home My Lord on earth might have; In death no friendly tomb But what a stranger gave. What may I say? Heav’n was His home; But mine the tomb wherein He lay.Links and References
*Free MP3 performance of "My song is love unknown" for use in public or private worship from hymnswithoutwords.com
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ireland_%28composer%29 Wikipedia - John Ireland
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Crossman Wikipedia - Samuel Crossman
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