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Lyrics:Unknown
Music:Ada Rose Gibbs
Meter:8.7.8.7.D

Hymns using same tune:

#268, #779, #925, #1247

 

Song of Songs
(Tune: with chorus, #268; without chorus, #466)

 

 1  How I love Thee, precious Jesus,

       That Thy love laid hold of me;

    Thou hast drawn and wooed and kissed me

       That a lover I may be!

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 2  As a company of horses,

       Thou, O Lord, has likened me,

    Strong and swift, with Pharaoh's chariots,

       Full of natural energy.

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 3  Just a lover with the dove's eyes

       Fixed on Him and Him alone;

    Changed are all my natural concepts,

       Oh, the Lord in me has grown!

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 4  Now a lily of the valley,

       Standing out among the thorns,

    In the Lord alone I'm trusting,

       Of my self-strength I've been shorn.

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 5  Make us doves that hide in Thee, Lord;

       Bring us to the secret place.

    There You find our voices sweet, Lord,

       And desire to see our face.

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 6  Make us then, Lord, smoking pillars,

       Coming from the wilderness.

    By Thy death and resurrection

       All our natural will suppress.

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 7  You desire a couch to rest on —

       We become a rest to Thee;

    Thou the Person in our being,

       Gone our personality.

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 8  Now a palanquin You're making —

       Nothing natural You'll allow.

    For Your move and Your expression

       Start this work within us now!

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 9  You supply the wood and pillars

       For the structure and support,

    Bottom gold and seat of purple

       For our King of royal court.

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 10  Only this, O Lord, we offer

       For Thy palanquin so fine:

    Just our love, so pure and fitted,

       The interior design.

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.

 

 11  What a sight when our Beloved

       Wears a crown upon His brow;

    Christ, the Church, are now united —

       Boast and glory to Him now!

 

Our Beloved, how we love Him,

   So attractive, our delight.

We are captivated wholly

   And are comely in His sight.