"O Love, Who Madest Me to Wear"
by Johann Scheffler, 1624-1677
Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1829-1878
Text From:
THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL
(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1941)
1. O Love, who madest me to wear
The image of Thy Godhead here;
Who soughtest me with tender care
Thro' all my wand'rings wild and drear,--
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine, to be.
2. O Love, who ere life's earliest dawn
On me Thy choice hast gently laid;
O Love, who here as man wast born
And like to us in all things made,--
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine, to be.
3. O Love, who once in time wast slain,
Pierced thro' and thro' 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.
4. O Love, who thus hast bound me fast
Beneath 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.
5. O Love, who lovest me for aye,
Who for my soul dost ever plead;
O Love, who didst my ransom pay,
Whose power sufficeth in my stead,--
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine, to be.
6. O Love, who once shalt bid me rise
From out this dying life of ours;
O Love, who once above yon skies
Shalt set me in the fadeless bowers,--
O Love, I give myself to Thee,
Thine ever, only Thine, to be.
Notes:
Hymn #397 from _The Lutheran Hymnal_
Text: 1 John 4:16
Author: Johann Scheffler, 1657
Translated by: Catherine Winkworth, 1858
Titled: "Liebe, die du mich zum Bilde"
Tune: "Heut' triumphieret Gottes Sohn"
1st Published in: _Deutsche geistliche Lieder_
Town: Frankfurt a. O., 1601
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