Sacred Songs and Solos Lyrics
Hymn No.852

First Line: Loved with everlasting love,

Loved with everlasting love,
Led by grace that love to know ;
Spirit, breathing from above,
Thou hast taught me it is so !
Oh this full and perfect peace !
Oh this transport all divine !
In a love which cannot cease,
I am His, and He is mine ;
In a love which cannot cease,
I am His, and He is mine.

2 Heaven above is softer blue,
Earth around is sweeter green !
Something lives in every hue
Christless eyes have never seen :
Birds with gladder songs o'erflow,
Flowers with deeper beauties shine,
Since I know, as now I know,
I am His, and He is mine.

3 Things that once were wild alarms
Cannot now disturb my rest ;
Closed in everlasting arms,
Pillowed on the loving breast.
Oh to lie for ever here,
Doubt and care and self resign,
While He whispers in my ear —
I am His, and He is mine !

4 His for ever, only His ;
Who the Lord and me shall part !
Ah, with what a rest of bliss
Christ can fill the loving heart !
Heaven and earth may fade and flee,
First-born light in gloom decline ;
But, while God and I shall be,
I am His and He is mine.