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Love of God, all love excelling.
Love of God, all love excelling!
How can I its wonders tell!
Now, my troubled spirit quelling,
Now, it breaks the powers of hell:
O what mercies
Start beneath its magic spell!
2 Love of God, all love embracing
In its wide extended arms;
All our doubts and fears displacing,
Saves our souls from death’s alarms:
O what sweetness
Dwells within its blissful charms!
3 Love of God, all love possessing!
Filling all our souls with joy;
Pouring on each heart a blessing,
Which no time can e’er destroy:
Now may praises
All our hearts and tongues employ.
4 Love of God, all love extending
Far o’er sea and ocean strands;
Thou art on the breezes sending
Joyful news to distant lands:
May thy triumphs
Bind the world within thy bands.
W. T. Moore.