Love Unknown by NYCYPCD

How Firm a Foundation by NYCYPCD

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Love Unknown
by NYCYPCD

Album: How Firm a Foundation

1 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?

2 He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know:
    But oh, my Friend,
    My Friend indeed,
    Who at my need
    His life did spend.

3 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.

4 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.

5 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.

6 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.